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{{liturgy}}The '''dismissal''' (gr. ἀπόλυσις ; sl. отпуст) is the concluding portion of the divine services in which the presiding [[priest]] or [[bishop]] prounounces pronounces a final, formal blessing on the faithful. The dismissal is omitted in [[Reader]]'s services (that is, services in which a priest or bishop is not presiding).
The dismissal takes two forms. The [[Divine Liturgy]], [[Vespers|Great Vespers]], and [[Orthros]] celebrated on a Sunday or on a feast that includes an Orthros Gospel lection uses the '''''great dismissal'''''. The remainder of the services of the [[Daily Cycle]] conclude with an abbreviated form known as the '''''small dismissal'''''.
An example of the great dismissal for the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom served on a Sunday not during a festal season is as follows ([[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America|Antiochi]]an practice):
:''May he who rose again from the dead, Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-immaculate and all-blameless holy Mother; by the might of the precious and life-giving cross; by the protection of the honorable bodiless powers of heaven; at the supplication of the honorable, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John; of the holy, glorious and all-laudable apostles; of our father among the saints, John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople; of the holy, glorious and right-victorious martyrs; of our venerable and God-bearing fathers; of ''(saint to whom the temple is dedicated);'' of the holy and righteous ancestors of God, [[Joachim and Anna]]; ''(saint(s) of the day)'' and of all the saints: have mercy on us, and save us, forasmuch as He is good and loveth mankind.''
== External link ==
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