Orthodox Religious-Cultural Center of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy opens

Orthodox Religious-Cultural Center of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy opens
# 15 November 2013 13:45 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. Orthodox Religious-Cultural Center of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy was opened on November 15. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev also participated in the opening ceremony


The Head of State was presented bread and salt. President first visited Jen-Mironosits church.

Following this, the opening ceremony of the Orthodox Religious-Cultural Center of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy was held. The Head of State familiarized himself with the conditions created at the Center.

A meeting was organized at the tea table.

The ceremony was attended by Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Board, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy Alexander Ischein, bishop of Vereya, chairman of Teaching Committee under the Holy Synod, rector of Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary Eugene, archbishop Feofan of Berlin and Germany, Head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of Baku Mountain Jews religious community Milikh Yevdayev, chairman of Baku religious community of European Jews Gennadi Zelmanovich, head of Red settlement Mountain Jews religious community Boris Simanduyev, chairman of Alban-Udin religious community Robert Mobili, ordinary of Catholic Church in Baku Vladimir Fekete, head of the Russian community of Azerbaijan, member of the Azerbaijani Parliament Mikhail Zabelin, Head of the Center for Geography of Religions at the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, Roman Silantyev, ambassadors of Russia and Belarus to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin and Nikolai Patskevich, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu and others.

President Ilham Aliyev made a speech at the meeting.

Following this, Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy Alexander Ischein addressed the event.

Bishop of Vereya, chairman of Teaching Committee under the Holy Synod, rector of Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary Eugene read the letter of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to President Ilham Aliyev.

Pashazadeh, Chaplin and Yevdayev also addressed the event.

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