Moscow, January 26, 2011
Praying at the service were Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Arseniy of Istra; Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administrative Secretariat; archpriest Vladimir Divakov, the Patriarch’s secretary for Moscow; and clergymen serving at the Moscow Patriarchate.
That same day, requiem services for the victims of the terrorist act were celebrated in all churches of the capital city, press office of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia reports.