News from the Cathedral

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  14 October 2026Names of 1937 to be read in full on 14 November

  On the Commemoration of the victims of 1937 the cathedral will read every name now known from the Diocesan Archives, including 61 added this year.

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  9 October 2026Last mountain clinics before the passes close

  The Sisters of the Cross and the St. Luka Mission are making their last visits of the year to the high villages before the snow.

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  2 October 2026St. Ephrem Seminary opens its year with nine new students

  Nine young men, four of them from the highland parishes, began their studies at the Major Seminary on Thursday.

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  25 September 2026Council of Hierarchs communiqué: “Water can be shared. It cannot be sold.”

  The autumn session of the Council of Hierarchs approved the Tartip for 2027, a new phase of work on the dome and a word on the renewal of the Naryn agreement.

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  15 September 2026Feast of the Cross closes the pilgrimage season

  Thirty-four years after the cathedral was given back, the Church kept Salyba Künü and remembered Mar Timotheos Alimbekov.

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  25 August 2026Pilgrims from both sides of the line keep the Feast of St. Janyl

  The Archbishop celebrated the Holy Qurbana before a crowd the archbishopric estimates at more than 150,000, and riders from the valleys crossed the line unarmed.