Work on the Great Hospital Wards (1643-1644) and the hospital Church of St. Euphymy (1646) began in 2022.
The celebration was led by His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije, together with 11 other hierarchs of the Serbian Church, and His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
On Tuesday, April 2, His Eminence Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod tonsured the novices in the Church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow Icon of the Mother of God.
The new 3-story home, in the village of Pionersky, northwest outside of Moscow, can house up to 15 retired clerics.
Reportedly, the metropolitan and archimandrite had a dispute about what time the service should have started that day.