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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Much has been written on how to behave with this pandemic of Coronavirus. Please follow the directives of the medical authorities .

May Our merciful Lord Jesus Christ keep us all safe, may this difficult period pass quickly through the intercession of His most blessed Mother, the Ever-Virgin Mary the Theotokos.

+Archbishop Irénée 

The following prayer to be read during Divine Liturgy after the litany for the catechumens:  

Sunday, March 8, 2020

His Eminence Archbishop Irénée visited St. Hilary of Poitiers Orthodox Community in Québec City on Sunday 8 March, where he presided over the Divine Liturgy for this first Sunday of the Great Lent. His Eminence took this opportunity to give the community an icon of the patron saint of the mission and to tonsure a reader.

The archbishop also visited Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Québec City.

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Videos below of the visit of His Eminence Archbishop Irénée to Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Sobor in Vancouver on Sunday 23 February.

Following the Liturgy, the parish celebrated the 70th birthday of Arthur Kostiha. Arthur is the starosta of the parish for 16 years.

 

Divine Liturgy

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Photo and videos from the funeral of Bishop Varlaam (Novakshonoff) at All Saints of North America Monastery in Dewdney, BC, as clergy and faithful assemble to bid farewell to the beloved hierarch.

 

 

 

Funeral service at All Saints of North America Monastery in Dewdney

Burial in Orthodox cemetery in Vancouver

Monday, February 17, 2020 to Saturday, February 22, 2020

Monday, February 17 – Volunteers are needed for funeral preparations, such as cleaning the church inside and outside, which will start at 9 a.m. We want to make the monastery setting as nice as possible in preparation for the arrival of Vladika Varlaam on Friday.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 to Friday, July 24, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Glory to Jesus Christ!

At the request of His Eminence, Archbishop Irénée and on behalf of the 2020 Canadian Archdiocesan Assembly Planning Committee, I would like to invite all of you to join us in Montreal, Quebec, during the week of July 21, 2020 for our triennial Canadian Assembly and Clergy Synaxis. The Synaxis and Assembly will be held in at Manoir D’Youville, Chateauguay, Quebec.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Olga Leonidovna Jurgens fell asleep peacefully in the Lord on Thursday evening, 6 February, 2020.  She reposed in Ottawa, Ontario, in the Seniors’ Residence where she had been living for several years. 

Olga Leonidovna Jurgens was born in Milan, Italy, on 30 June, 1926, to Leonid P M Jurgens and his wife Anna Alexandrovna Solodovnikova. 

Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission - Pan-Orthodox Great Blessing of Water at Cherry Beach in Toronto
Monday, January 6, 2020

Photos from the celebration of Theophany around the Archdiocese of Canada.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

On Sunday 5 January, His Eminence Archbishop Irénée visited Sts Peter and Paul Sobor in Montréal.

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the feast of Saint John Chrysostom.  At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy His Eminence Archbishop Michael of New York and New Jersey, Secretary of the Holy Synod, read a proclamation of the Holy Synod announcing the anniversary celebrations

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