CNA Staff, Apr 9, 2021 / 05:35 am
Authorities in Russia have returned a church to the Catholic community after a 25-year wait.
The church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Novgorod, western Russia, was officially restored to Catholics on March 15, reported ACI Stampa, CNA’s Italian-language news partner.
Bishop Nikolaj Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv., celebrated the first solemn liturgy in the restored church, a quarter of a century after the first official request for the restitution of the property.
Dubinin, 47, is an auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow.