Bishop Andrew in Linz and Tulln

His Grace Bishop Andrew of Austria-Switzerland served Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Linz on 6 December 2014. The next day the Bishop visited the Church-school congregation of Tulln.

Diocesan dean for Austria protopresbyter-stavrophor KrstanKnezevic and other local priests concelebrated to the Bishop. The Holy Liturgy was attended by high church and municipal authorities of the city of Linz, among whom there was retired Catholic Bishop Maximilian, benefactor of the Serbian people and the bearer of the order of Saint Sava. There were also lots of pious believers.

On 7th December His Grace Bishop Andrew was paid a canonical visit to the Church-school congregation of Tulln, which together with the neighbouring Church-school congregation of Sankt Pölten geographically and spiritually covers the northern region of Lower Austria. The vesper service in presence of a great congregation, devoted to the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas of Myrra, was celebrated by local parish priests from Tulln and Sankt Pölten. Following the service, Bishop Andrew held a sermon and a lecture about the spiritual life in the Serbian Church nowadays. After the lecture both administrations of the church-school congregations of Tulln and Sankt Pölten presented to the Bishop a precious icon of Saint Parascheva of the Balkans.

Source: Diocese of Austria-Switzerland