His Eminence Stephen takes part in the celebrations in honor of the feast day of St. George (Konissky)translated

On August 6, the Church honors the memory of St. George (Konissky), Archbishop of Mogilev and Belarus.

His Eminence Stefan, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin, took part in the celebrations on the occasion of the celebration of the day of memory of St. George (Konissky) in Mogilev. The Divine Liturgy in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the city of Mogilev was led by Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavsky, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus.

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Saint George (Konissky), Archbishop of Mogilev and Belarus (1717 - 1795), worked on the Mogilev land for four decades and went down in history as a church leader, politician, diplomat, lawyer, scientist, teacher and writer.

The bishop suffered persecution and persecution for the Orthodox faith, but as a good shepherd he led the flock entrusted to him to Christ. The saint combined his episcopal work with diplomatic activities, administrative work, the construction of churches of God, the study of national history and spiritual care. But the main task of his life was the protection of the Orthodox people of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from forced Catholicization and the desire with all his might to return the Uniates to the bosom of holy Orthodoxy. In Mogilev...