On July 3, 2023, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev and Southern Dean Valeri Antipov started a visitation of the deanery’s congregations, visiting also some of the congregations in the Moscow Deanery. Itinerary: St. Petersburg – Tver – Schyokino – Borisoglebsk - Saratov – Voronezh – Kursk – Zheleznogorsk – Moscow – St. Petersburg. As they … [Read more...]
Newly installed catechist to serve church in Schyokino
According to the decision of the ELCIR Synodal Council made on September 30, 2022, Filipp Rodionov was installed in the ministry of catechist to serve the Lutheran congregation in Schyokino, Tula Oblast. The ceremony of blessing took place at St. George’s Lutheran Church in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, on October 16, 2022, the 18th Sunday after … [Read more...]