JERUSALEM: 21 October 2022
The Vicar of the Kievan Lavra of the Caves visits Ascension of the Lord Convent on the Mt of Olives in Jerusalem

On the afternoon of October 11, 2022, His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, Vicar of the Kiev-Caves Lavra, visited Ascension of the Lord Monastery on the Mt of Olives as part of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission of the Russian Church Abroad, Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky) and the abbess of the convent, Matushka Barbara (Novikova), met Vladyka Pavel with accompanying pilgrims at the entrance of the Holy Ascension Church. The Metropolitan venerated the holy relics of the church and served a litany for the dead at the grave of the builder of Russian Palestine, Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin).

Fr Roman assured Vladyka Paul of daily prayers for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, recited at daily services.

The Metropolitan is a longtime friend and benefactor of the monastery. Upon visiting the chapel of the Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist, Metropolitan Pavel visited and prayed at the graves of the recently deceased Abbess Moiseia and Nuns Rafaila and Isidora.

Then the metropolitan was offered tea in the abbess’ chambers.

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