БЛАГОДАРСТВЕННАЯ МЕССА В КАРАГАНДЕ

Bishop Peter Pytlovany led a thanksgiving Mass at the St. Joseph Small Basilica in Karaganda on October 11. This service marked the first Mass celebrated by the bishop following his ordination and his start as the ordinary of the Karaganda Diocese.

Mitrophor protodeacon Vasily Govera, the apostolic administrator for Byzantine Rite believers in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, attended the liturgy. The Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia noted that the basilica is a site connected to the history of 20th-century faith confessors and religious persecution.