Metropolitan Pavel served with the Most Holy Patriarch Kirill at the consecration of the Sretensky Church of the Rizopolozhensky Monastery in Suzdal and celebrated the Divine Liturgy on September 27, 2026.translated

On September 27, 2026, during the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost, the Feast of the World-Honored Life-Giving Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, Most Holy Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited Suzdal in Vladimir Oblast. There, he performed the great consecration of the Sretensky Church of the Rizopolozhensky Women's Monastery and celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church. Upon his arrival at the monastery, Metropolitan Vladimir of Vladimir and Suzdal Nikanor, head of the Financial-Household Department of the Moscow Patriarchate; Governor of Vladimir Oblast A.A. Avdeev; Head of Vladimir City S.S. Volkov; Head of Suzdal City R.V. Kavinov; Abbess of the Rizopolozhensky Monastery in Suzdal, Igumena Ekateryna (Ivanova); and students from the Orthodox School named after St. Arsenius of Elasi in Suzdal greeted him. A honor guard was stationed at the entrance to the church from among the cadets of the Vladimir Legal Institute of the Federal Service for Execution of Criminal Sentences of Russia. Patriarch Kirill proceeded into the church, where he venerated the relics of St. Euphrosyne of Suzdal. Three altars were consecrated: the central one in honor of the Finding of the True Cross, and the right one in honor of...