On April 15, 2023, St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg hosted the ELCIR Easter Music Festival. Participating choirs came from the ELCIR churches in Koltushi (directed by Maria Skipper), Caritas Choir from St. Mary’s Lutheran (directed by Ludmila Shmidrina), Toksovo (directed by Yana Trombinskaya), Gatchina (directed by … [Read more...]
ELCIR pastors attend conference at Presidential Library
On April 25, 2023, the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg hosted the conference “The Traditional Religions as the Spiritual and Moral Unity of Russia.” The event was organized by the Administration of Leningrad Oblast and gathered around 100 government officials from Leningrad Oblast and Moscow, heads of religious organizations and community, … [Read more...]
Theological Institute, St. Mary’s Church host church cantor course
The ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi and St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg hosted the 3rd class period of the Church Cantor Course from March 27 through April 2, 2023. The course gathered musicians from four of the nine ELCIR deaneries—Karelian, St. Petersburg, Uralic, and Siberian. In Koltushi, Mikhail Levin, … [Read more...]
Students of Christian faith visit Orthodox church in St. Petersburg
On Saturday March 18, 2023, students from the School of Christian faith at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg took an excursion to Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church at Herzen University. Many thanks to Fr. Dmitri for his engaging talk about the design and furnishings of the Orthodox church building! We wish God’s richest … [Read more...]
ELCIR holds online conference on Ruth
On March 7, 2023, the Church of Ingria held a conference on the biblical Book of Ruth. The conference, which took place at St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg and was live-streamed via Zoom, gathered 36 people. It opened with greetings from ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev. Many thanks to Aleksandr Sokolov and Aleksandr Statinov for arranging … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- …
- 22
- Next Page »