On Wednesday of the 7th week after Pentecost, August 7, 2024, the managing director of the Moscow Patriarchate, the first vicar of His Holiness the Patriarch for Moscow, the vicar of the Novospassky Stavropol Monastery, Metropolitan Gregory of the Resurrection celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Kulishki — Alansky farmstead in Moscow, the Telegram channel of the Central Vicariate of Moscow (city) reports dioceses.
The service was timed to coincide with the 134th anniversary of the death of the outstanding educator and missionary of Ossetia, Bishop Joseph (Chepigovsky) (November 26, 1821 — August 6, 1890), who headed the Vladikavkaz diocese from 1865 to 1889. Russian Russian dictionary. He made every effort to open church schools in Ossetia with teaching in Ossetian and Russian languages, and worked for 23 years to create the first Russian-Ossetian dictionary. For his invaluable contribution to the development and strengthening of spirituality and education, Bishop Joseph was called the "apostle of Ossetia". In 1889, due to health reasons, Vladyka was sent to rest, and the Moscow Novospassky Monastery became his last place of stay and repose.
During the Liturgy, Metropolitan Gregory was concelebrated by Archpriest Oleg Egorov, dean of the Pokrovsky District, Priest Vyacheslav Dzheyranov, rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Kulishki, Archpriest John Sirota, rector of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Serebryanyki, Moscow, Archpriest Valery Privalov, rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Mourn" at the Kalitnikovsky cemetery in Moscow, metropolitan clergy.
The divine service was performed in Church Slavonic and Ossetian languages.
At the end of the Liturgy, Bishop Gregory addressed the faithful with an archpastoral address.