During the Reformation Sunday worship service on October 30, 2022, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev installed Pastor Konstantin Subbotin in the position of Rector of the ELCIR Theological Institute. The new rector took up his duties on November 1. Please keep Pastor Konstantin and his new ministry in your prayers! “You then, my child, be … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev visits Vyborg
On October 23, 2022, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev visited the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast. A Vyborg newspaper took his interview (click here to read his full interview in Russian). Quote: “For me, the Church is living people with their joys and problems, it's specific ministers and parishioners who need support and whose lives I want to … [Read more...]
ELCIR Events Calendar for November 2022
(October 31) – November 11 – Initial Theological Course at the ELCIR Theological Institute. November 1 – All Saints’ Day. Memorial services in ELCIR congregations. (May be moved to November 5). November 3-6 – “Hear your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.” Youth retreat at the Lutheran Church of Yukki, … [Read more...]
Psalmodicon in use in Vyborg
The Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, continues the tradition of singing to a psalmodicon. In Karelia and Leningrad Oblast, this instrument has also been known as virsikannel and jouhikkokannel. While there is a psalmodicon in a showcase at Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow, the Vyborg congregation lets you hear it … [Read more...]
St. Michael’s Church perpetuates memory of St. Petersburg pastor
The museum of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg has been receiving more information about one of its former pastors, Rev. Arnold Frischfeldt (1874-1937) who started serving St. Michael’s church in 1915, later served St. Catherine’s church and taught at Leningrad Theological Seminary. During the Stalinist repression, he was put under … [Read more...]
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