The ceremony of farewell to the priest of Patriarch Kirill Elder Ily will be held on March 18

The farewell and funeral ceremony of the confessor of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill schiarchimandrite Ilia (Alexei Nozdrin) will be held on March 18. This is reported by the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

The ceremony of farewell to the priest of Patriarch Kirill Elder Ily will be held on March 18

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The farewell and funeral ceremony of the confessor of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill schiarchimandrite Ilia (Alexei Nozdrin) will be held on March 18. This is reported by the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

The ceremony will be held at the Vvedensky Stavropegial Monastery of Optina Deserts in the Kaluga region, where he took tonsure in the great schema with the name of Ily in honor of another Sebasti martyr. There he was sent as a confessor in the late 1980s and for 20 years revived the senile ministry for which the monastery was famous. Schiarchimandrite Ily passed away late at night on March 15, 2025 at the age of 93.

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