Thursday, 23rd November 2017, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova made archpastoral visit and celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the parish of the Miracle of Archangel Michael in Hirtopul Mare community, Criuleni region.
The metropolitan was greeted in the morning by archpriest Teodor Pelin, Dean of Criuleni and Dubasari church circumscription, by the parish rector, archpriest Grigore Placinta, and priests from the deanry.
During the Divine Service the metropolitan awarded a number of church distinctions to priests from Criuleni and Dubasari Deanry, at the report of the district Dean, Fr. Teodor Pelin.
In sign of the archpastor’s appreciation of missionary and pastoral ministry, on the 50th anniversary, father Grigore Placinta, the parish rector, was awarded the Third Degree Church Merit Order.
Thanks-giving prayers were uttered after the Liturgy, and Metropolitan Vladimir congratulated and blessed the praying community.
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