25 years since the foundation of the Belarusian Exarchate

On October 11, 2014 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue the stamp “25 years since the foundation of the Belarusian Exarchate”.

Designer: Alexander Blintsov. Printing: offset. Colour: full colour. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 13^1/2. Size of the stamp: 37x52 mm. Sheet composition: 6 (3x2) stamps. Size of the sheet: 110X123 mm. While printing the stamp they used the technology of thermal stamping by metalized foil of golden colour. Print quantity: 60.000 stamps.

The stamp was printed at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A. T.  Nepogodin”.

Letter “H” is equal to the surface tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.

 

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Moscow Patriarchate, was held on October 9-11, 1989 in St. Daniel Monastery. It adopted a definition of the foundation of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate having endorsed the decision of the Holy Synod about the formation of Mogilev, Pinsk and Polotsk dioceses.

 

25 years since the foundation of the Belarusian Exarchate
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Elements of protection

A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out at the Main Post Office of Minsk on the stamp issuing day.