The consecration of the Church in Vorontsovka Stanitsa

June 16, 2012 – Vorontsovka, Krasnodar Krai

On 16 June, Vorontsovka village met Metropolitan Isidor of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, who visited the village to consecrate the Church in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Grower of Crops” ["Sporitelnitsa khlebov"].

The only one in the breadbasket region church dedicated to the icon protecting cultivators had been building hard and for a long time before the Director General of the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation Mikhail I. Chepel came to the aid of dean and parishioners and provided material and organizational support. The construction was supervised directly by Svetlana Panteleevna Mangasarova who has experience in construction of the church in Shkurinskaya, another village of Kuban.

Meeting of Vladiko

Many parishioners gathered from across the diocese to take part in celebration of the church’s consecration. The solemn procession took place.

Solemn procession

After the ceremony, Mikhail I. Chepel awarded the most outstanding builders and organizers participated in the construction of the church with the Foundation’ merit certificate.

Mr. Chepel presents Foundation’s merit certificates to the builders and organizers.

The Foundation of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker also donated to the church the icon of the Mother of God “The Grower of Crops”, which had been painted by artist of Yeisk Alexander Kruchan at the request of Mikhail I. Chepel.

The icon of the Mother of God “The Grower of Crops”

Then His Eminence Isidore addressed the faithful, wishing everybody peace, love and kindness.

The iconostasis of the the Church in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Grower of Crops”.