Metropolitan Sergiy ordained deacon Phillip Calington to the rank of presbyter
On June 25, 2023, the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, the Patriarchal Exarch of South-East Asia, Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Ostankino, Moscow.
His Eminence was co-served by: Hegumen Pavel (Khokhlov), rector of the Church of the Archangel Michael in Kuala Lumpur; Priest Alexander Churochkin, cleric of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Ostankino; Priest Dimitry Lavrentiev, cleric of the Church of the Dormition of Most Holy Theotokos in Singapore; and Priest Vissarion Mahardik, cleric of the Church of St. Jonah of Manchuria in Surabaya, Indonesia.
During the Liturgy, Metropolitan Sergiy ordained Deacon Phillip Calington to the rank of presbyter.
By decree of Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia, Priest Phillip Calington, was appointed full-time cleric of the Church of the Dormition of Most Holy Theotokos in Singapore.
At the end of the service, Metropolitan Sergiy read out “The Appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to his Compatriots,” after which His Eminence addressed those present in the church with an archpastoral address and congratulated the audience with a Sunday, and the communicants – on receiving Christ’s Holy Mysteries.
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