The recent ordination of new deacons in The Church of Ingria has become the focus of a material published at a Finnish website, kotimaa24.fi. Bishop Seppo Häkkinen of Mikkeli believes that the ordination of Finnish citizens as deacons of The Church of Ingria does not constitute any problems for The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland because the … [Read more...]
Steinar and Youth Group Visit Church in Vyborg
Longtime friends of Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church in Vyborg Steinar Harila with a group of young people from Norway visited the congregation on February 17, 2020. By tradition, the fellowship opened with the pastor of the congregation Rev. Vladimir Dorodni saying a word of greeting to the guests. He thanked the organization Hjelp til … [Read more...]
ELCIR Athletic Team Takes 3rd Place in Valenki Ice Hockey
News from the Athletic Team of The Church of Ingria. On February 15, 2020, Okhta Park served as the venue of the 4th Russkaya Zima Winter Festival of Street Sports. Part of the festival was an interconfessional ice-hockey-in-valenki tournament. Valenki are traditional Russian winter boots made of felt. Seven teams representing different … [Read more...]
Laier Visits Ingrian Congregation in Gatchina
On February 16, 2020, during his visit to Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Mr. Gerhard Laier, chairman of the Russian-German Society in Ettlingen, Germany, a sister city of Gatchina since 1992, visited St. Nicholas’ Lutheran Church. Mr. Laier attended the divine service, after which he talked with Senior Pastor Rev. Viktor Vorontsov and Yelena … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev Attends Inter-Faith Discussion on Peacemaking
On February 11, 2020, Dom Druzhby (“The House of Friendship”) of the Leningrad Oblast located in St. Petersburg hosted a meeting of The Bridge of Concord, an interreligious discussion club founded at the ELCIR Theological Institute in 2016. The topic of the roundtable discussion was “Peacemaking in Interreligious Interaction.” The meeting was … [Read more...]