Diocesan Decree Concerning Liturgical Commemorations Following the Repose of the First Hierarch. | Епархиальный указ о богослужебных поминовениях по кончине Первоиерарха. | Décret diocésain relatif aux commémorations liturgiques après le repos du premier hiérarque. 19 May, 2022
English: 3 / 16 MAY 2022: The following Decree has been issued by the Ruling Bishop of the Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe, concerning the form of liturgical commemorations of the Hierarchy in all churches of the Diocese, following the blessed repose of the First Hierarch (see the scanned PDF of the decree, below, in Russian and English). In communicating these details to the clergy of the Diocese earlier this week, Bishop Irenei also noted that the Holy Synod had determined that, during the present Paschal period, in all Divine Liturgies, at the Augmented Litany the repose of the First Hierarch should be prayed for as an addition to the customary petition for reposed rulers, as follows: ‘Again we pray for the blessed and ever-memorable, holy Orthodox patriarchs; and pious kings and right- believing queens; and the founders of this holy temple, and for the newly-reposed Metropolitan Hilarion and for all our fathers and brethren gone to their rest before us, and the Orth