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Registration closes for on-line choral conducting class
Registration for the Department of Liturgical Music’s on-line course, “Choral Conducting for Beginners,” closed on Friday, August 26, 2016 due to an overwhelming initial response. The course, which...
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Twenty-six clergy, lay leaders complete OCA’s second Mission School
2016 Mission School instructors and participants.Twenty-six clergy and lay leaders representing every diocese of the Orthodox Church in America completed the second annual Mission School held on the...
View ArticlePastoral Changes for June, July 2016 released
The “Pastoral Changes” for June and July 2016—the official announcements of ordinations, assignments, releases, etc. affecting the clergy of the Orthodox Church in America, as issued by the Office of...
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Study Guide on Caring for Creation ideal for new school year
September 1 marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, but since the late 1980s, it also has been observed as the “Day of Prayer for Creation.” Within this context, “The Earth is the Lord’s:...
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September OCAreview available for downloading, parish distribution
The September 2016 edition of “OCAreview: The Orthodox Church in America’s Monthly Hard-Copy Digest” is now available in color and black and white PDF formats for downloading and local distribution....
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SVOTS to host panel discussion on sacred arts September 17
On Saturday, September 17, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary [SVOTS] here will host a panel discussion titled “Rethinking Sacred Arts.” The event, which is open to the...
View ArticleChancery closed in observance of Labor Day
The Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America will be closed on Monday, September 5, 2016 in observance of Labor Day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 6. We wish all of our...
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SVOTS welcomes diverse student body
Incoming SVOTS students at opening services.An incoming class of 38 students at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary here brings the school’s total enrollment for the 2016–2017 academic year to 77. The amazingly...
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New students welcomed at St. Tikhon’s Seminary
New students welcomed at St. Tikhon’s Seminary.Saint Tikhon’s Seminary here opened the 2016-2017 academic year by welcoming 14 new Master of Divinity students. According to Archpriest Steven...
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Planting Grant Missions: Digital tools for the ‘Modern Fishermen’
Fr. Andre and parishioners join forces to minister to homeless.As a mission priest for the last three years, Priest Andre Paez, Rector of Saint John the Evangelist Mission here, states that his...
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Remembering 9/11: Fifteen years later
Portraits of 9-11 victims in New York’s National September 11 Memorial Museum.Sunday, September 11, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks on New York City, Shanksville, PA,...
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Fr. John Behr appointed to Met. Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology
The Amsterdam Center for Orthodox Theology [ACOT] recently announced that the Executive Board of Vrije Universiteit [VU] has appointed the Archpriest John Behr, Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox...
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Seminarians, area clergy and faithful to celebrate St. Sergius Day at...
Faithful receive Holy Communion during 2015 St. Sergius Day celebration.His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon and the staff of the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America will welcome students from...
View ArticleClergy, wives invited to participate in September 15 webinar with Dr. Rossi
An invitation has been extended to all clergy of the Orthodox Church in America and their wives to participate in a webinar, “Becoming a Healing Presence,” at 1:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, September 15,...
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Prayers offered for 9/11 victims at St. Catherine Representation Church
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, prayers were offered in all parishes of the Orthodox Church in America—including the Church of the Great Martyr Catherine, Moscow—for those who lost their lives in the...
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OCA represented at Veterans Affairs’ conference
From left, Fr. Theodore Boback; Chaplain Michael L. McCoy, Director of the National Chaplain Office; Bishop Richard B. Higgins, Vicar for VA, Catholic Archdiocese of Military Services, USA; and Fr....
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Honoring our college students on Sunday, October 2
Every year, parishes across North America honor their college students at the outset of the fall semester. This year, the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has...
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Study resources now available for Doctrine, Scripture volume of “The Orthodox...
While the late Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko was revising his four-volume series, The Orthodox Faith, he asked the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of Christian Education [DCE] to develop study...
View ArticleMetropolitan Council Fall Session opens September 19
The Fall Session of the Metropolitan Council of the Orthodox Church in America opened at Immaculate Conception Seminary here on Monday, September 19, 2016. The four-day session will be chaired by His...
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“Healing Earth” theme of October 13-15 ecology conference
The mission parish of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne here will sponsor a conference titled “Healing Earth: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Ecology and Climate Change” October 13-15, 2016. “This subject...
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