On August 2, 2022, on the day of the memory of the prophet of God Elijah, patronal celebrations were held at the courtyard of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Haifa, reports orthodoxianewsagency.
With the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilus of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the feast day by Metropolitan Kiriakos of Nazareth, who was co-served by the staff and clergy of the mission Hieromonk Dometian (Markaryan), Hieromonk Athanasius (Bukin), Hieromonk Matthew (Kozlov) and Deacon Ilia Drachuk, and also the Arab clergy of the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
The service was performed in three languages – Church Slavonic, Greek and Arabic, writes the press service of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission.