Ordination of a Deacon at the Patriarchate of Jerusalemtranslated

Yesterday, October 2, 2026, the Ordination of a Deacon was performed at Frikto Golgotha by the Most Reverend Archbishop of Gerasos Mr. Theofanis. The new Deacon will serve in the Russian-speaking community of Haifa.

The announcement of the Chief Secretariat in detail:

On the morning of Friday, September 19 / October 2, 2026, in a Divine Liturgy on the Awful Calvary, officiated by the Elder Sceoukeeper of the Reverend Archbishop of Hierapolis, Mr. Isidoros, the Reverend Archbishop of Gerason, Mr. Theophanis, in accordance with the decision of the Holy and Holy Synod (RMB Conference/31-02-2026), ordained the scholar Mr. Dionysion (Dennis Novikov) as a deacon, in order to minister in the Russian-speaking Community of Haifa.

The Abbot of Haifa Archimandrite Artemios participated in this Liturgy and ordination, Elders of the Haifa area, the parish of Haifa, Holy Burial Fathers, in the presence of the ordained.

Before the ordination, the ordaining Bishop addressed patristic exhortations to the person being ordained.

After the ordination, the ordained after the ordaining High Priest, the Abbot of Haifa Archimandrite Artemios and members of the...