In the evening of January 20, 2022, St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg hosted a Prayer for Christian Unity. Leading the Prayer: ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev; Auxiliary Bishop Nikolai Dubinin of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow; Bishop Viktor Sipko of the Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches in Leningrad Oblast; Senior Pastor Mikhail Ivanov of St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral. The Prayer was attended by Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, and Evangelical Christians from St. Petersburg.