“The Most High was born as a man, having voluntarily received flesh from the Virgin, to cleanse the heads of the serpents from the poison, leading everyone to the life-giving Light, Who is God, from the gates of the sunless”

On January 7, 2025, on the bright feast of the Nativity of Christ, His Eminence Archbishop Theofan of Korea served the Divine Liturgy in the Resurrection Parish in Seoul.

Hierodeacon Nektariy (Lim) and Hierodeacon Savva (Glazyrin) co-served with His Eminence.

After the Liturgy, the clergy of the church performed a glorification before the icon of the Nativity of Christ. After this, congratulatory messages from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ and Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia Metropolitan Sergius of Singapore were read out, then Archbishop Theofan himself addressed the believers with words of congratulations on the arrival of the feast of the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Divine Infant.

Press Service of the Korean Diocese