In a letter addressed to His Holiness, Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dated Thursday, December 15, 2016, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon expressed “the deep sorrow and shared grief of the Bishops, the clergy, the monastics and the faithful of the Orthodox Church in America” in response to the deadly bomb blast at Cairo’s Saint Peter Church, adjacent to the city’s Coptic Cathedral of Saint Mark, on Sunday, December 11.

Remember the suffering Christians in Egypt in your prayers.

Vladyka Irénée, Fr Justin Mitchell and Deacon Nicolas Svetlovsky served liturgy at the Holy Transfiguration Skete in Rawdon Dec 7th for the Feast of St Catherine.

By the mercy of God and the efforts of our faithful clergy and faithful, the Ontario Deanery was blessed this fall to host Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro, Dean and founder of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia.

Father Daniel’s Indonesian Mission Tour visited Kingston, several locations in Toronto, and Windsor, Ontario, before departing once again for the United States, en route to Indonesia.