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Metropolitan Tikhon responds to Wonder blog
On Friday, November 7, 2014, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, in consultation with the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, responded to the recent discussion...
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OCMC grants help 10 seminarians serve on mission teams
2014 seminarian grant recipients served on mission teams in Kenya, Albania, Ghana and Moldova.The Orthodox Christian Mission Center provided 10 grants to students at four Orthodox seminaries in order...
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SVOTS awards honorary doctorate to Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev]
On November 8, 2014, at a special academic convocation, the Board of Trustees and faculty of Saint Vladimir’s Seminary here awarded His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, Chair...
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Metropolitan Tikhon meets with Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev]
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, met privately with His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, during...
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Many years, Your Beatitude!
Today — Thursday, November 13, 2014 — marks the second anniversary of the election of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America at the 17th All-American Council,...
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IOCC Sunday is November 23
Each year, the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America designates the Sunday before U.S. Thanksgiving Day as “IOCC Sunday.” This year’s commemoration falls on Sunday,...
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Evangelization Department chair speaks in NY-NJ Diocese, St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Father Parker preaches at NY/NJ Assembly Liturgy.At the invitation of His Grace, Bishop Michael, Priest John Parker, Chair of the Department of Evangelization of the Orthodox Church in America, visited...
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Managing our time: An Orthodox perspective
As Orthodox Christians, we are called to wisely manage our talents, our treasures, and our time. And, in these first days of the Nativity Fast, we very well may find that our good intentions for...
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Antiochian Bishop Nicholas to deliver 32nd annual Fr. Schmemann Memorial Lecture
His Grace, Bishop Nicholas [Ozone], Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, will be the guest speaker at the 32nd annual Father Alexander...
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Antiochian Bishop Thomas visits St. Tikhon’s Community
Bishop Thomas addresses St. Tikhon’s seminarians.His Grace, Bishop Thomas, Auxiliary of the Diocese of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North...
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Mt. Sinai librarian to speak at St. Tikhon’s Monastery November 21
Archimandrite Justin SinaitesThe Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple will be celebrated with Hours and Divine Liturgy at 8:40 a.m. in the Monastery Church of Saint Tikhon of...
View ArticleSeptember, October 2014 pastoral changes posted
The “Pastoral Changes” for September and October 2014 — the official announcements of ordinations, assignments, releases, etc. affecting the clergy of the Orthodox Church in America, as issued by the...
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St. Peter the Aleut Grants provide numerous opportunities
The Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry of the Orthodox Church in America is making available limited grants through its Saint Peter the Aleut Grant Program to make it possible for...
View ArticleSt. Gregory Palamas: Sermon for the Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos
If a tree is known by its fruit, and a good tree bears good fruit (Mt. 7:17; Lk. 6:44), then is not the Mother of Goodness Itself, She who bore the Eternal Beauty, incomparably more excellent than...
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DCE bulletin inserts available for December Sundays
Downloadable bulletin inserts for each Sunday of December 2014, provided by the Department of Christian Education, are available at http://dce.oca.org/page/bulletins. The series complements the...
View ArticleOCA Treasurer’s report for first three quarters of 2014 available
The financial report for the first three quarters of 2014, prepared by Ms. Melanie Ringa, Treasurer of the Orthodox Church in America, is now available on-line. “Year to date, through September 30,...
View ArticleA Blessed Thanksgiving!
In observance of US Thanksgiving Day, the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America will close early on Wednesday, November 26, 2015 and will reopen on Monday, December 1. We wish a most blessed...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Prayer
Final words By way of introduction, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the last time on Thanksgiving Day. This was particularly appropriate since Father Alexander had...
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The Enthronement of Bishop Irénée at the Ottawa Cathedral
The Enthronement of His Grace, Bishop Irénée as Bishop of Ottawa and the Orthodox Church in America’s Archdiocese of Canada will be celebrated at Annunciation/Saint Nicholas Cathedral here on Saturday,...
View ArticleMetropolitan Tikhon to visit Russia at the invitation of Patriarch Kirill
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, will make an official visit to the Orthodox Church of Russia at the invitation of His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow at the beginning of December 2014. “It is...
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