Diveyevo Monastery Marks 150th Anniversary

Celebrations have been held at central Russia's Holy Trinity Monastery in Diveyevo to mark the 150th anniversary of the Monastery's founding as well as the 20th anniversary of its renewal after the fall of the USSR and the 20th anniversary of the translation of the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov to Diveyevo. The commemorative services were led by Metropolitan Yuvenaliy (Poyarkov) of Krutitsy with the participation of Archbishop Georgiy (Danilov) of Nizhniy Novgorod, whose diocese includes the region around Diveyevo, and 13 other hierarchs of the Belorussian, Estonian, Russian, and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. More (in Russian) here.