On Wednesday, after the Sunday of the Paralytic, the Orthodox Church celebrates, a great despotic feast, the feast of the Mid-Pentecost.
The Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery was celebrated on Wednesday, Mid-Pentecost, by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Metropolitan Kirill of Ekaterinburg, other bishops, as well as a host of clergymen con-celebrated along with the Patriarch of Moscow.
During the Divine Liturgy, prayers for the preservance of the unity of the Orthodox Church were read.
Later, Hierodeacon Grigory Sokolov, member of the Secretariat of the Inter-Orthodox Relations Department of the Foreign Relations Department, was ordained a Presbyter by the Primate of the Russian Church.
