Sharing this invitation (see file download) from our Lutheran friends at the Petrikirche, 22-24 Nevsky Prospekt, to attend the St Petersburg presentation at the church this Sunday 2nd February at 12:00 of a new book, "The Revival of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia: Reminiscences of Archbishop Georg Kretschmar on his Ministry from 1989-2005".The presenter will be Hans Schwahn, who compiled and edited the book which was published in Moscow in December 2019, and all those attending will receive a free copy of the book.For more on Archbishop Kretschmar, see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Kretschmar
The third annual "Summer Institute" for CofE clergy and laity, run by the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and the Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate Studies, took place from 17th to 26th September. This year's group, led by Bishop Jonathan Goodall, started their trip in St Petersburg, visiting the Theological Academy where they learned about the modern martyrs and had tea with the Rector (see photo). After St Petersburg, they moved on to Valaam Monastery for several days before heading down to Moscow to stay at the Danilovsky Monastery and, at the end of their trip, visit St Andrew's Anglican Church for an evening service at which Bishop Goodall presided and Canon Hugh Wybrew preached.
Congratulations to Canon Malcolm Rogers, Chaplain of St Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow, on his licensing as Area Dean of Russia and Ukraine in the Diocese in Europe. The licensing, by the Bishop in Europe, the Rt Revd Dr Robert Innes, took place in Church House chapel in London on 19th June.As well as the Anglican Church in St Petersburg and St Andrew's, Moscow, Canon Rogers now also has oversight of the Anglican community in Kyiv, Christ Church, which meets at 3pm every Sunday in St Catherine's German Lutheran Church.
