On the 31st Sunday after Pentecost, Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia Concelebrated Liturgy with Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi at Resurrection Cathedral in Khanty-Mansiysk
On January 11, 2026, the 31st Sunday after Pentecost, after the Nativity of Christ, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Resurrection Cathedral in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk. The service was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi. On the eve of the feast, the Patriarchal Exarch co-served Vladyka Pavel at the All-Night Vigil.
The Divine Liturgy was led by seven hierarchs: Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan and Tatarstan; Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and Southeast Asia; Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi (Head of the Khanty-Mansi Metropolis); Metropolitan Evgeny of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye; Archbishop Nikolai of Salekhard and Novy Urengoy; Bishop Mstislav of Tikhvin and Lodeynoye Pole; and Bishop Mikhail of Yugra and Nyagan.
Concelebrating with the hierarchs were: Abbot Joseph (Kriukov), acting head of the St. Petersburg Metochion of the Transfiguration Valaam Monastery; Hieromonk Kirill (Korytko), Secretary of the Tatarstan Metropolis; Archpriest Alexander Menzelintsev, rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Sedmiezernaya” in Mytishchi; Hieromonk Kornily (Molev), Secretary of the Philippine-Vietnamese Diocese; and clergy of the Khanty-Mansi Metropolis. The deacons were led by Protodeacon Georgy Stefanov, a cleric of the Tikhvin Diocese.
Praying at the service were Abbess Sophia (Silina), abbess of the Resurrection Novodevichy monastery in St. Petersburg, and Abbess Georgiya (Alginina), abbess of the monastery dedicated to the Icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness” in Surgut. The solemn Divine service was attended by members of the government, deputies of the State and Regional Duma, representatives of public organizations and force structures, heads of municipalities, and representatives of business in Yugra.
During the Divine Liturgy, Metropolitan Pavel performed a priestly ordination.
Upon the end of the liturgy, a festive doxology was sung. Greetings to Metropolitan Pavel on his 70th birthday on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ were then read along with congratulations from the clergy and faithful of the Khanty-Mansi Diocese.
At the conclusion of the liturgical celebrations, Metropolitan Pavel addressed those gathered with a homily.
Hierarchs of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Southeast Asia concelebrated with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on the 17th anniversary of the enthronement of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
Diocesan Assembly of Clergy of Diocese of Philippines and Vietnam was held
