Archbishop Kyrill reads the prayer of absolution.

Priests lifting the coffin containing the body of the late Vladyka and carried it around the church while singing “Helper and protector…”

Pannikhida at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.

“Come, brethren, let us give the last kiss unto the dead…”

“The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof…”

The dismissal.

Standing with the mantle of Bishop Alexander are Protodeacons Victor Lokhmatov and Protodeacon John Onopko, who graduated Seminary with the reposed Vladyka in 1967.