Patriarch Kirill will visit three dioceses of the Belarusian Orthodox Church from September 25-28

September 2, Minsk / Tatyana Pastushenko - BELTA /. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill during his primatial visit to Belarus on September 25-28 will visit three dioceses of the Belarusian Orthodox Church - Minsk, Polotsk and Vitebsk. The program of the visit of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church includes meetings with the clergy and the public, the country's leadership, familiarization with the life of Orthodox communities, as well as the performance of divine services, the Belarusian Exarchate informed BELTA correspondent. On the first day of the visit, September 25, His Holiness will venerate the Minsk Icon of the Mother of God and the relics of St. Sophia of Slutsk in the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk. Then, a meeting with the scientific and creative intelligentsia, representatives of church and secular public is planned at the Palace of the Republic. After that, Patriarch Kirill will inspect the spiritual and educational center of the Belarusian Orthodox Church under construction in Minsk, and lay a wreath at the monument on Victory Square. On September 26, His Holiness intends to visit the Minsk Diocesan Administration of the BPC, the Institute of Theology named after Saints Methodius and Cyril of Belarusian State University, the church-monument under construction in honor of All Saints, the House of Mercy, and perform a prayer in the Cross Church in honor of the Council of Belarusian Saints. In the evening of the same day, the Patriarch plans to go to Polotsk, where he will visit the Holy Euphrosyne Convent and perform the rite of the Exaltation of the Cross using the national shrine of Belarus - the Cross of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk. On September 27, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill will perform the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Cross Exaltation Cathedral in Polotsk, inspect the Holy Transfiguration Church and the XII-century frescoes in the Holy Euphrosyne Convent in Polotsk, and visit the Holy Sophia Cathedral. After that, he will go to Vitebsk, where he will lay flowers at the memorial cross at the site of the death of 180,000 victims of Nazism in the Vitebsk concentration camp. His Holiness will also visit the Holy Protection Cathedral and take part in the opening ceremony of Victory Square, which is the largest in Belarus and one of the largest in Europe. On September 28, Patriarch Kirill will meet with students and youth in the Summer Amphitheater, after which he will consecrate the foundation stone for the recreation of the Holy Nicholas Cathedral in Vitebsk. The Patriarch will depart for Moscow from the Vitebsk airport. -0-