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.

Site for Future Cathedral Blessed in Diveyevo

Archbishop George (Danilov) of Nizhniy Novgorod has blessed the ground for the construction of a new cathedral at the Diveyevo Monastery that will be dedicated to the Annunciation of the Mother of God. The site of the future cathedral was originally occupied by a church built by the Monastery's sisterhood in disobedience to St. Seraphim that was subsequently destroyed during the Soviet era. More here.

Metropolitan Jonah Leads Festal Services in Diveyevo

This morning Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) of Washington of the American Orthodox Church concelebrated the festal Divine Liturgy for St. Seraphim's day with Archbishop George of Nizhniy Novgorod and a number of other hierarchs and clergy of the Russian and American Orthodox Churches. More here.