Bishops of Patriarchal Exarchate of Southeast Asia Concelebrate with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on Sixteenth Anniversary of Enthronement of the Primate of Russian Orthodox Church

On February 1, 2025, the Russian Orthodox Church prayerfully celebrated the 16th anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. In all the churches and monasteries, prayers were lifted up for the Primate of the Church, elected at the Local Council of 2009 to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne.

On this significant day, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrated the Divine Liturgy in enthronement vestments at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

Concelebrating with His Holiness was a host of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, including the Patriarchal Exarch for Southeast Asia, Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and Southeast Asia, and Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi.

At the end of the Liturgy, after the Many Years, Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk read out a congratulatory address from the members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the 16th anniversary of his enthronement.

The Primate of the Russian Church addressed the participants of the solemn service with his primatial sermon.

Then, the church awards were presented to the archpastors who had celebrated memorable dates and especially laboured for the good of the Holy Church. A reception was then held on the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

Based on the materials of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.