On November 20, 2020, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Holy Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky in the monastery of the same name near Peredelkino in the Moscow Region. Today the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates his 74th birthday. During the Liturgy, […]

Your Grace, dear Vladyka and loving Archpastor and Father!   On the joyful and exciting day of your hierarchical Pentecost, please accept our congratulations on a significant date for you – the fifth anniversary of your episcopal consecration! Five years ago, our Lord Jesus Christ called you to the high apostolic ministry that you now […]

There’s new spirit in a long-standing Bonnyville church. Saints Peter and Paul Parish on 51 Avenue has gone through renovations over the course of the summer with a fresh exterior look. The church was built in 1944 about six miles east of Bonnyville, said secretary-treasurer Stefania Zuk, and was moved to town in 1950. But […]

Father Jacob Korchinsky was the first of many permanent priests in Canada. In 2020 we mark the 120 years anniversary of his assignment to serve in and around Edmonton. From this issue of our bulletin and on we begin publishing the outline of the life and the activity of father Jacob.   The life of […]

Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, sent a message of condolences to the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America on the repose of Metropolitan Theodosius (Lazor) Your Beatitude, With profound sorrow I have learnt about the loss suffered by the Orthodox Church in America. The Lord […]

Translated from the Russian 20.10.2020 01/5004 His Beatitude Tikhon Archbishop of Washington Metropolitan of All America and Canada Your Beatitude, Beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant: I have been grieved to learn about the passing away of His Eminence Metropolitan Theodosius (Lazor), your beatific predecessor who headed the Orthodox Church in in America from […]

October 4 is the day of presbyterian consecration of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Temporarily Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada. Clergy, monastics and laity of the Sourozh diocese, the Patriarchal parishes in the United States and Canada, heartily congratulate their Archpastor on the 22nd anniversary of his ministry in […]

On September 5-6, the clergy and faithful of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States, Canada and Mexico prayerfully marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the special union of parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate on the North American continent. The celebration was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the repose of the […]

I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all of you on this significant date the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States of America and Canada. 50 years ago, in 1970, special canonical subdivisions of the Russian Orthodox Church were formed, uniting the Patriarchal Parishes […]

Praising Merciful God Who causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous (Mt. 5:45), the Church is ardently praying for the final deliverance of people from the harmful infection that has invaded us this year. The Holy Synod has called upon the bishops, […]