the Funeral of Bishop Barnabas will take place on 3 June. Chin will make the Metropolitan and Mari Yoshkar-Ola John. Divine Liturgy will be held in pokrovsko-Tatianenko Cathedral Cheboksary. It is reported by the GTRK “Chuvashia” with reference to the Chuvash diocese.
Recall, Metropolitan Varnava of Cheboksary and Chuvashia died on 1 June. He will be buried behind the altar of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
“that was the last will of the deceased Metropolitan. All his life he revered St. Sergius of Radonezh and was tonsured at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra”, — said the representative office.
Vladyka Barnabas died at the age of 89 years of bilateral pneumonia. He was one of the most respected and oldest hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. The coffin with the head of the Chuvash Archdiocese installed today in pokrovsko-Tatianenko Cathedral. Greeting parishioners and representatives of clergy.
Text: GTRK “Chuvashiya”
