Metropolitan Theodosius took part in the main divine services of the Royal Days in Yekaterinburgtranslated

On the night of July 16-17, 2026, Metropolitan Theodosius of Samara and Novokuybyshevsk took part in the main divine services of the Royal Days, held in Yekaterinburg on the day of remembrance of the holy Royal Passion-Bearers. The night Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the square in front of the lower chapel of the Church-Monument on the Blood. Tens of thousands of believers who arrived in the Ural capital from different regions of Russia and foreign countries prayed during the service. The Divine Liturgy was led by 19 bishops: permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District, Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan; representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis; Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut Pavel, Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuybyshevsk Theodosius, Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy, Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass Alexy, Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liskinsky Leonty, Bishop of Remesian, vicar of the Belgrade-Karlovatsk diocese, head Bishop Stefan of Remesian of the Serbian Patriarchal Metochion in Moscow; Bishop of Isilkul and Russko-Polyansky Theodosius,...