Moscow, December 27, 2010
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| Bishop Nestor (Sirotenko). |
The diocesan vicar Bishop Nestor of Kaffa was appointed to the see, parishes in Italy were also given to his archpastoral care, the Moscow Patriarchate reported on its official website.
Bishop Nestor, graduate of the Russian State University for Humanities and the Moscow Theological Academy is known as an advocate of active witness to Orthodoxy in the West. Establishing of the recently open Paris Seminary is among his achievements.
Former head of the Russian Church "West-European" see Archbishop Innokenty who administered it for 11 years is transferred to the Lithuanian See instead of Metropolitan Chrysostom of Vilna and Lithuania who retired on medical grounds.