At 12:00 a bell has struck 7 times. At 12:20, a church service has begun; mass-media representatives could also take part in it.

«The first stroke of a bell has coincided not only with birthday our favourite city, but also with an anniversary of the Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail Agafangel who celebrated his 70-year birthday.

It would also be desirable to notice that the sound from a bell stroke was very beautiful and sonorous», — Sergey Ostashko, the press attache of the Black Sea Orthodox fund has noted.

As he said, now there are 24 bells in a cathedral which can play any church melodies, but for this purpose they have to be included in the program which operates the bells.