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« On Epiphany Eve, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy, Vespers, and the Great Blessing of Water at the Dormition Cathedral in London »
18-01-2025 
On January 18, 2025, on the eve of the Epiphany (Epiphany Eve), His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy, Great Vespers, and the Great Blessing of Water at the Dormition Cathedral in London.
His Grace was assisted by Dean of the Diocesan District of South-East England Archpriest Vitaly Polischuk, Secretary of the Sourozh Diocese Archpriest Dimitry Nedostupenko, clergy of the UOC temporarily residing in the Sourozh Diocese, Priest Alexander Kapustin, and Protodeacon Vadim Santsevitch.
The liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the Dormition Cathedral under the direction of Dmitry Tugarinov.
After the Liturgy, the Archpastor celebrated Vespers with the reading of paremias and the rite of the great blessing of water. Then the glorification of the feast was performed.
At the end of the divine service, Bishop Matthew congratulated the faithful on Epiphany Eve and the upcoming feast of the Epiphany and addressed the parishioners with a word of spiritual edification. The translation into English was done by Protodeacon Vadim Santsevitch.