On October 13, one of the oldest parishes in the Moscow Patriarchate’s Western European Exarchate celebrated its 100th anniversary.
The church is dedicated to St. Paraskeva the Confessor, a little-known 20th-century saint who briefly lived in Turkowice. The new church and monastery buildings were made possible through the Common Work 2020 campaign, which involved all dioceses of the Polish Orthodox Church.
At the orphanage, the babies are raised in an Orthodox environment, mirroring the care provided to boys at St. Innocent Orphanage. The facility offers education, essential needs, enrichment activities, and nurtures the infants with God’s love.
The Holy Spirit Church is one of the oldest in the Ryazan Kremlin. The image of this unique double-tent church is familiar to all Ryazan residents and memorable to city visitors.
St. Matrona, known as the eighth pillar of Russia, is greatly beloved throughout the Orthodox world today, and on October 5, His Eminence Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro of the Serbian Orthodox Church consecrated a new church in her honor at the monastery named for her in the Montenegrin village of Kovači.