Delegates to and participants in the 18th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America are urged to make reservations at the Hilton Atlanta as soon as possible. The AAC will convene on July 20, 2015 and end on July 24.
The Youth Department of the Orthodox Church in America, in partnership with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. is launching a new on-line program—“Praxis: Christian Life Realized”—for high schoolers, college students, and young adults. The sessions will consist of monthly Google hangouts giving participants an opportunity to engage in a variety of practical topics.
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is hosting the second Halki Summit on “Theology, Ecology, and the Word.” Co-sponsored by Southern New Hampshire University, the summit will be held on the island of Halki from June 8-10, 2015.
On the Soul Saturday before Holy Pentecost the monks of the Holy Annunciation Hermitage celebrated the fortieth Divine Liturgy of the Sorokoust. The Liturgies began on Radonitsa (“Day of Rejoicing” celebrated on the Tuesday after Thomas Sunday).
The Russian Ambassador to Canada visited our Monastery to help dedicate the Stele in memory of our WWII veterans at our Human Rights and Social Justice Monument. Attached are photos of His Excellency's visit.
It was with great joy that the monks of the Hermitage of the Annunciation received the visit of His Eminence Archbishop Irénée for the feast of the Holy Ascension.
On May 14, 2015, the Orthodox Church in America marked the 50th anniversary of the repose of His Eminence, Metropolitan Leonty, who served as Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All America and Canada from 1950 until his repose in 1965.
On Friday, May 8, the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Russian victory in the 'Great Patriotic War', the Consulate General of the Russian Federation hosted a reception in honour of war veterans.
The final draft of the revised Statute of the Orthodox Church in America, slated to be presented for adoption at the upcoming 18th All-American Council (AAC) in Atlanta, GA July 20-24, 2015, is now available on-line.