On the first Sunday in Lent, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev started a visitation of the congregations in the Siberian Deanery. Route: St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Ufa, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, St. Petersburg. At Holy Trinity Lutheran in Krasnoyarsk, Bishop Laptev installed Deacon Aleksei Karabtsov in the service of this church. The … [Read more...]
Rev. Subbotin installed as new senior pastor of St. John’s Lutheran, St. Petersburg
On February 19, 2023, at St. John’s Estonian Lutheran Church of the ELCIR in St. Petersburg (Jaani kirik), ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev installed Pastor Konstantin Subbotin as senior pastor of this congregation. Pastor Artis Eglītis, Deacon Hannu Keskinen and Catechist Andrei Ignatov assisted in the installation service. Original post in … [Read more...]
St. Mary’s Church to hold a gala, wishing a Happy 70th Birthday to Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi!
On Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 1 pm Moscow time, St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral located at 8 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street, St. Petersburg will hold a gala celebration of the 70th birth anniversary of Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi! Everybody is welcome! The celebration will be webcast live via St. Mary’s YouTube channel. All … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev attends ceremony commemorating the 1944 lifting of the Leningrad Siege
On January 27, 2023, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev attended the ceremony in Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg commemorating the 79th anniversary of the Liberation of Leningrad in 1944 from the Nazi Siege during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Original post in Russian … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev, Oleg Belezhenko attend interfaith social ministry discussion in Moscow
On January 26, 2023, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev and Oleg Belezhenko, director of Anna Pomogayet Nonprofit visited the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate at Danilov Monastery in Moscow. They attended the roundtable discussion “Social Ministry of Religious Communities: Denominations Share Experiences.” The … [Read more...]
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