Pilgrimage to Walsingham

On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, the eve of the feast day of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Myra in Lycia to Bar, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, officiated the All-Night Vigil in St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City.
On May 21, 2025, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, held a meeting at the Representation of the Moscow Patriarchate in New York with members of the organizing committee to prepare for the Convocation of Clergy and Laity
On May 20, 2025, the Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, arrived in New York.
On May 18, 2025, on the 5th Sunday after Easter, of the Samaritan woman, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, as part of his visit to the diocesan district of Northern England, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God in Manchester.
May 18 is the birthday of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, ruling bishop of the Sourozh Diocese, temporarily Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada.
On May 17, 2025, in anticipation of the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, festive events were held at the Parish School of the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth at the Dormition Cathedral in London.
On Saturday, May 17, 2025, on the eve of the commemoration of St. John of Beverley, Bishop of York, the Wonderworker (+May 7/20, 721), a pilgrimage was held at the Cathedral of Beverley, where the relics of this saint of the undivided Church rest in a reliquary beneath the crypt of the central nave.
On May 16, 2025, a graduation ceremony was held at the parish school of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Dublin.
From May 9 to 11, 2025, parishioners of the Intercession Church in Manchester took part in festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.
On May 11, 2025, on the 4th Sunday after Easter, the Sunday of the Paralysed Man, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in London.
On May 10, 2025, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Head of the diocesan department for Inter-Orthodox relations, Archpriest Joseph Skinner, took part in the celebrations on the occasion of the ordination of the first ruling bishop of the Romanian Patriarchate in Great Britain, Archbishop Atanasie of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
On May 9, 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, the Divine Liturgy, funeral litia and thanksgiving moleben to the Lord God for the gift of victory in the Great Patriotic War were celebrated in the Dormition Cathedral in London.
In the run-up to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, on May 7, 2025, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Edinburgh Denis Moskalenko and the Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Dmitry Kozlovsky, a cleric of the Diocese of Sourozh, Dean of the Diocesan District of Scotland, Priest Alexander Menshikov, as well as Russian and Belorussian diplomats laid wreaths and flowers at the memorial stone erected in the Scottish town of Errol in honour of the Soviet pilots.
On May 6, 2025, the day of remembrance of the Great Martyr George the Victorious and the holy martyrs Anatoly and Protoleon, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in London.
On May 4, 2025, on the 3rd Sunday after Easter, the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in London.
On Saturday, May 3, 2025, celebrations were held to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, France.
On the evening of May 3, 2025, on the eve of the 3rd Sunday after Easter, of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.
On April 29, 2025, on the day of Radonitsa, after the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in London, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh and the cathedral clergy served a panikhida at the grave of the ever-memorable founder of the Sourozh Diocese, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom), at the Old Brompton Cemetery in London.