Moscow, 17 March 2008 (Interfax):
On Monday morning, Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia prayed for the repose of the soul of the newly-departed Metropolitan Laurus Skurla, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The prayers for the soul of the newly-departed Vladyki Laurus were said during the Hierarchical Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts served today by the patriarch at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the St Daniil Monastery in Moscow. Metropolitan Laurus died early on the morning of 16 March, on the day celebrating the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.
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