The United States Department of State recently announced the recipients of the Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Awards for 2023.
Formerly the Archbishop of Verey, Met. Evgeny has served in Estonia since June 2018.
His Grace Bishop Pavel of Levski served as a hierarch of the Orthodox Church for 25 years.
Cyril Hovorun, formerly an archimandrite of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been defrocked by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
For centuries, Lithuania has been acknowledged as the canonical jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. Headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Innokenty of Vilnius, the diocese does not recognize the existence of the new exarchate or the status of its clergy.