The Patriarch consecrated a new temple on Dubrovka. Consecration of the temple on Dubrovka Church of Cyril and Methodius on Levoberezhnaya

On December 13, on the 28th Sunday after Pentecost, the celebration of the memory of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' performed the rite of great consecration of the temple in honor of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Kirill, teachers of Slovenia, on Dubrovka, and then led the service of the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church.

Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril was laid on April 29, 2011 in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack that occurred in the fall of 2002 at the Dubrovka Theater Center. On October 23, 2002, terrorists captured about a thousand people who came to a performance of the musical “Nord-Ost” and held them for three days. The bulk of the hostages were released on October 26, the day of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. 130 people became victims of the terrorist attack.

The temple in honor of Saints Cyril and Methodius on Dubrovka became the first church, the foundation of which took place as part of the program for the construction of 200 churches in Moscow, initiated by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. The central altar of the temple is consecrated in honor of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril, the right one - in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, the left - in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir. Concelebrating with His Holiness were: Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Theophylact of Dmitrov, abbot of the St. Andrew's Stavropegic Monastery, Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, administrator of the Vienna-Austrian and Hungarian dioceses and rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki; first deputy manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, abbot of the Novospassky stauropegial monastery in Moscow, Bishop Savva of the Resurrection; Secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' for Moscow, Archpriest Vladimir Divakov; rector of the Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril, Slovenian teachers, on Dubrovka, Archpriest Vladimir Makeev; rector of the Perervinsky Theological Seminary, rector of the Patriarchal Metochion of the churches of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, Archpriest Vladimir Chuvikin; rector of the Church of Sophia of the Wisdom of God in Sredniye Sadovniki, Archpriest Vladimir Volgin; rector of the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, archpriest Leonid Kalinin, ancient guardian of the Moscow city diocese; rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Melbourne (Australia) Archpriest Igor Filyanovsky; clergy of the Moscow diocese. Present at the service were: Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill on construction issues, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Support of the Construction of Moscow Cathedrals V.I. Resin; Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots L.E. Slutsky; Head of the Department of National Policy, Interregional Relations and Tourism of Moscow V.V. Chernikov; Prefect of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow A.V. Chelyshev; benefactors and beautifiers of the temple on Dubrovka. Liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the church in St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril on Dubrovka. The Soyuz TV channel carried out a live broadcast of the Patriarchal service. After the special litany, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church offered a prayer for peace in Ukraine.

Then prayers were offered for the repose of the souls of the departed servants of God, “in this place they were in captivity and accepted death innocently.” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill ordained Deacon Evgeny Dynich, a student at the Moscow Theological Academy and clergyman of the Pokrovsky Academic Church, to the priesthood. The sermon before communion was delivered by priest Vladimir Stasiuk, cleric of the Patriarchal Metochion of the churches of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, vice-rector for academic affairs of the Perervinsky Theological Seminary. At the end of the service, the rector of the church on Dubrovka, Archpriest Vladimir Makeev, greeted His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and presented His Holiness with a panagia as a gift.

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed the flock with the Primate's word. His Holiness donated an icon of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity to the parish of the newly consecrated church.

In consideration of the work on the construction of the Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Kirill on Dubrovka His Holiness Patriarch Kirill awarded the rector of the parish, Archpriest Vladimir Makeev, with the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree.

In gratitude for the help in the construction of churches in Moscow to the adviser to the mayor of the capital, adviser to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation V.I. The Primate of the Russian Church presented Resin with the Patriarchal Letter.

In consideration of assistance in the construction of the Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Kirill, Slovenian teachers, on Dubrovka, were presented by His Holiness to: President of JSC Eco-Teplo Yu.E. Shelyapin - Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, III degree; President of the Tashir group of companies S.S. Karapetyan - the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree; S.S. Seregin - Order of St. Andrew the Iconographer, III degree.

A number of benefactors, beautifiers, representatives of the Moscow mayor's office and the prefecture of the South-Eastern Administrative District of the capital, who contributed to the construction of the temple on Dubrovka, were awarded medals of St. equal to book Vladimir and etc. Seraphim of Sarov, as well as the Patriarchal Charters.

Icons of Saints Methodius and Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, with the Patriarchal blessing were distributed to everyone present in the church.

At the end of the service, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of terrorism, installed at the former Theater Center on Dubrovka, and met with the children of special forces employees who died in the line of duty.

Temple in honor of Saints Methodius and Cyril, Equal to the Apostles, teachers of Slovenia (consecrated with a great rite)

Address: SEAD. St. Melnikova, vl. 7

Abbot: Archpriest Vladimir MAKEEV

Designer: "Mosproekt-2" (for 500 people)

December 13, 2015 , on the day of celebration of the memory of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' performed the rite of great consecration of the temple in honor of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Kirill, teachers of Slovenia, on Dubrovka, and then led the Divine Liturgy service in the newly consecrated church.

Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril was founded on April 29, 2011 by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack that occurred in the fall of 2002 at the Theater Center on Dubrovka. On October 23, 2002, terrorists captured about a thousand people who came to a performance of the musical “Nord-Ost” and held them for three days. The bulk of the hostages were released on October 26, the day of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. 130 people became victims of the terrorist attack.

The temple in honor of Saints Cyril and Methodius became the first church, the foundation of which took place as part of the implementation of the Program for the Construction of Churches in Moscow. The central altar of the temple is consecrated in honor of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril, the right one - in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, the left - in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.

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Saints Cyril and Methodius - a symbol of enlightenment

Every Russian person, like every Slav in general, holds the name of Slavic teachers equally dear and sacred. Saints Cyril and Methodius became a symbol of enlightenment. And they should serve us as a good example of Christian teaching, which needs to be revived and developed here in Russia.

Life

Saints Equal to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius, Slovenian teachers, came from a noble and pious family that lived in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Saint Methodius (in the world Michael) was the eldest of seven brothers, Saint Cyril (in the world Constantine) was the youngest.

Before becoming a monk, Michael made a good military-administrative career, culminating in the post of strategos of Slavinia, a province in Macedonia. Having stayed there for about 10 years, Saint Methodius became a monk in one of the monasteries on Mount Olympus.

From an early age, Constantine was distinguished by great abilities and studied together with the young Byzantine Emperor Michael III from the best teachers of Constantinople, including Photius, the future patriarch. The saint perfectly comprehended all the sciences of his time and many languages. For his intelligence and outstanding knowledge, Constantine received the nickname Philosopher (wise). At the end of his studies, the saint accepted the rank of priest and was appointed keeper of the patriarchal library at the Church of St. Sophia. However, he soon left the capital and secretly went to a monastery. They found him and brought him back, appointing him as a teacher of philosophy at the higher school of Constantinople.

The wisdom and strength of faith of the still very young Constantine were so great that he managed to defeat the leader of the iconoclast heretics, Annius, in a debate. Then Emperor Michael III sent his friend to a debate about the Holy Trinity with the Saracens (Muslims). And again the saint emerged victorious.

At the call of the emperor, the brothers left the monastery and went to preach the gospel to the Khazars. On the way, they stopped in the city of Korsun, where they miraculously found the relics of the Holy Martyr Clement, Pope of Rome. There, in Korsun, Saint Constantine found the Gospel and the Psalter, written in “Russian letters,” and began to learn to read and speak this language.

Soon, ambassadors came from the Moravian prince Rostislav to the Byzantine emperor with a request to send teachers to Moravia who could preach in the native language of the Slavs. Michael III called Constantine and told him: “You need to go there, because no one will do this better than you.” The saint, with fasting and prayer, began a new feat. With the help of his brother Methodius and his disciples Gorazd, Clement, Savva, Naum and Angelar, he compiled the Slavic alphabet and translated into Slavic the books without which the Divine service could not be performed: the Gospel, the Apostle, the Psalter and selected services. This was in 863.

After some time, the brothers decided to go to Rome, taking with them the relics of St. Clement, Pope of Rome. Pope Adrian greeted the scientists with honor and approved worship in the Slavic language, and ordered the books translated by the brothers to be placed in Roman churches and the liturgy to be performed in the Slavic language.

While in Rome, Saint Constantine fell ill and, informed by the Lord in a miraculous vision of his approaching death, he took the schema with the name Cyril. 50 days after accepting the schema, on February 14, 869, Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril died at the age of 42. The saint commanded his brother Methodius to continue their common cause - the enlightenment of the Slavic peoples.

Saint Methodius begged the Pope to allow his brother’s body to be taken away for burial in his native land, but the Pope ordered the relics of Saint Cyril to be placed in the Church of Saint Clement, where miracles began to be performed from them.

After the death of Saint Cyril, the pope, following the request of the Slavic prince Kocel, sent the teacher Methodius to Pannonia, having first ordained him archbishop of Moravia and Pannonia. The saint suffered many persecutions from the German bishops, but each time his truth turned out to be stronger than the enemy’s machinations.

In the last years of his life, Saint Methodius, with the help of two disciple-priests, translated the entire Old Testament into Slavic, except for the Maccabean books, as well as the Rules of the Holy Fathers and the patristic books (Paterikon).

The saint predicted the day of his death and died on April 6, 885 at the age of about 60 years. The funeral service for the saint was performed in three languages - Slavic, Greek and Latin. He was buried in the cathedral church of Velehrad.

Heritage

Saints Cyril and Methodius developed a special alphabet for writing texts in the Slavic language - the Glagolitic alphabet. Currently, among historians, the point of view of V. A. Istrin prevails, but is not generally recognized, according to which the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used today by Bulgarians, Serbs, Macedonians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, as well as numerous non-Slavic peoples, was created by the disciple of the saints brothers Clement of Ohrid (which is also mentioned in his life). Cyril and Methodius created a language now called Church Slavonic and translated the Holy Scriptures and liturgical books into it.

Reverence

Saints are revered both in the East and in the West. In the Russian Orthodox Church, the days of remembrance of the saints are: Cyril - February 27, Methodius - April 19.

In 1863, the Russian Holy Governing Synod established the celebration of both saints annually on May 24 “in memory of the completion of the millennium from the initial sanctification of our Russian language by the Gospel and faith of Christ.”

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As the apostle of unanimity / and the teacher of the Slovenian countries, / Cyril and Methodius of divine wisdom, / pray to the Lord of all, / to establish all Slovenian languages in Orthodoxy and unanimity, / / to pacify the world and save our souls.

On December 13, 2015, on the 28th Sunday after Pentecost, the celebration of the memory of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' performed the rite of great consecration of the temple in honor of the saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Kirill, teachers of Slovenia, on Dubrovka, and then led the service of the Divine liturgy in the newly consecrated church.

Concelebrating with His Holiness were: Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Theophylact of Dmitrov, abbot of the St. Andrew's Stavropegic Monastery; Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, administrator of the Vienna-Austrian and Hungarian dioceses; first deputy manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, abbot of the Novospassky stauropegial monastery in Moscow, Bishop Savva of the Resurrection; Secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' for Moscow, Archpriest Vladimir Divakov; rector of the Church of St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril, Slovenian teachers, on Dubrovka, Archpriest Vladimir Makeev; rector of the Perervinsky Theological Seminary, rector of the Patriarchal Metochion of the churches of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, Archpriest Vladimir Chuvikin; rector of the Church of Sophia of the Wisdom of God in Sredniye Sadovniki, Archpriest Vladimir Volgin; rector of the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, archpriest Leonid Kalinin, ancient guardian of the Moscow city diocese; rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Melbourne (Australia) Archpriest Igor Filyanovsky; clergy of the Moscow diocese.

Present at the service were: Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill on construction issues, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Support of the Construction of Moscow Cathedrals V.I. Resin; Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots L.E. Slutsky; Head of the Department of National Policy, Interregional Relations and Tourism of Moscow V.V. Chernikov; Prefect of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow A.V. Chelyshev; benefactors and beautifiers of the temple on Dubrovka.

Liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the church in St. equal to app. Methodius and Cyril on Dubrovka. The Soyuz TV channel carried out a live broadcast of the Patriarchal service. After the special litany, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church offered a prayer for peace in Ukraine. Then prayers were offered for the repose of the souls of the departed servants of God, “in this place they were in captivity and accepted death innocently.”

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill ordained Deacon Evgeny Dynich, a student at the Moscow Theological Academy and clergyman of the Pokrovsky Academic Church, to the priesthood.

The sermon before communion was delivered by priest Vladimir Stasiuk, cleric of the Patriarchal Metochion of the churches of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, vice-rector for academic affairs of the Perervinsky Theological Seminary.

At the end of the service, the rector of the church on Dubrovka, Archpriest Vladimir Makeev, greeted His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and presented His Holiness with a panagia as a gift.

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed the flock with the Primate's word. His Holiness donated an icon of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity to the parish of the newly consecrated church.

Icons of Saints Methodius and Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, with the Patriarchal blessing were distributed to everyone present in the church.