Archdiocese of Canada

With forest fires threatening, Fathers Gregory and Samuel and Brother Moses evacuated Holy Transfiguration Hermitage at Bridge Lake on Saturday night and arrived safely but very exhausted in Cranbrook on Sunday afternoon, July 16.

The winds tripled the size of the Ashcroft fire over the last couple days and it is now 423 square kilometres and heading towards the hermitage. They will be heading to stay with Fr Lawrence Reinheimer at his new home in Wynndel. They are requesting that people pray but please do not come to see them.

Photos from the visit of His Eminence, Archbishop Irénée, to Sts. Peter and Paul Sobor in Montréal on their patronal feast day.

His Eminence, ​Archbishop Irénée visits Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Quebec City, Sunday July 2nd.

The organizing committee for the Archdiocese of Canada (OCA) Assembly 2017 has made available registration forms and parent information sheets for youth activities.

Photos of Vladyka Irénée celebrating the Nativity of St John the Baptist at St Benoît de Nursie Church in Montréal with His Eminence, Archbishop Job of Telemessos.

Concelebrating were Fr Anatolij Melnyk, Fr Gregory Nimijean, Fr Dragos Giulea, Fr Justin Mitchell, F. Ihor Kutash, Dn Nicolas Svetlovsky, and Fr Dimitri Choueiry.

On 11 June, the Sunday of All Saints, Priest Gregory Scratch, Dean of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, had the honour of serving at the Parish of Meadow Lake for their Xhram (Altar feast). The parish of All Saints was received into the Archdiocese of Canada in 2008 and has since been served by clergy from Edmonton, Saskatoon and recently Smokey Lake Alberta In those nine years a combination of new members, and the dedication of its long time members has blossomed with weekly reader services and bible studies.

His Grace, Bishop Ilia, presiding bishop of the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, visited Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission in Toronto, on Sunday 18 June.

Bishop Ilia sits on the Episcopal Assemblies in both the United States and Canada, and he was in Toronto for the annual meeting of Canadian bishops hosted by His Eminence, Metropolian-Archbishop Sotirios on Thursday 15 June.

On Sunday June 11, His Eminence Archbishop Irénée celebrated Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Church in Desjarlais, Alberta, on the occasion of the 100th year anniversary of the founding of the parish.

Concelebrating with the Archbishop were the rector of St. Nicholas. Fr. Tikhon Bishop, Archimandrite Gerasim Power, Fr. Nikolai Nikolaev, Fr. Daniel Friesen, Fr. Evgeny Prokhin, Protodeacon Jesse Isaac, Deacon Nicolas Svetlovsky, and Deacon Kolin Berglund.