On June 20, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the Lycian Worlds (modern Demre, Turkey). More than three hundred pilgrims from Turkey, Russia and the CIS countries gathered for the service.
The service was led by Priest Georgy Sergeev, responsible for the care of the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the territory of the Republic of Turkey, in the concelebration of the priests who head the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in Antalya and Alanya – Priest Alexei Golovin and Priest Dmitry Bogatyr.
How сообщает the website of the churches and communities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Turkey, at the end of the Liturgy, a memorial service was held for the murdered Andrei Karlov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey (2013-2016).