Hierarch

Holy Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow

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Life

A Greek by origin. He governed the Russian Church wisely for twenty years. He reposed in the year 1430. A week before his death, an angel of God appeared to him and announced to him the exact time of his departure from this world.

From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, July 2. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Also commemorated on July 2

Deposition of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople Commemoration Holy Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem Hierarch

The full reading for July 2 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.

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