ArmInfo.On October 7, 2017 Bishop Vladikavkazsky and Alansky Leonid, the administrator of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Armenia, will perform the order of great consecration and will lead the Divine Liturgy in the newly built church in the name of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord in Yerevan.
The clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Armenia and clergymen of the Vladikavkaz and Alansk eparchy will serve Bishop Leonid.
The presence of statesmen of the Republic of Armenia, clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church, representatives of the public is expected. The decision to build a Russian Orthodox church in Yerevan and Armenian in Moscow was made by the ever-memorable Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II. On March 18, 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, in the course of his official visit to Armenia, commemorated the establishment of the Russian Orthodox Cross Exaltation Church in the Shengavit district of the Armenian capital.