A meeting of the organizing committee was held to celebrate the memory of the Venerable Martyr Athanasius, Abbot of Brest in 2026translated

On September 9, 2026, at the Brest Diocesan Administration a meeting of the organizing committee was held to celebrate the memory of the martyrdom of the Venerable Martyr Athanasius, Abbot of Brest, on September 17-18 of this year.

The chairman of the organizing committee was His Eminence the Most Reverend John, Archbishop of Brest and Kobrin.

The meeting of the organizing committee was attended by: Archpriest Sergiy Petrusevich, secretary of the Brest diocesan administration, dean of the churches of the Zhabinka district, rector of the parish of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the city of Zhabinka; Archpriest Valery Gritsuk, chairman of the commission on church singing, regent of the choir of the clergy of the Brest diocese, cleric of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Brest; Archpriest Georgy Savelyev, housekeeper of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in ag. Khmelevo; Hieromonk Dosifei (Grishuta), abbot of the monastery of the Venerable Martyr Athanasius, Abbot of Brest, in the city of Brest; Archpriest Mikhail Denisenko, sacristan of the Cathedral of St. Simeon the Stylite in Brest;  Priest Andrei Petrusevich, assistant secretary of the diocesan administration, rector of the parish of the Church of the Tikhvin Icon...