Chicago Deanery releases Lenten Vesper schedule
CHICAGO, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — The Chicago Deanery recently released its schedule of Sunday evening Lenten Vesper Services, all of which will begin at 6:00 p.m. Brief homilies focusing on...
View ArticleMother Gabriella to speak at Chicago-area Pan-Orthodox Lenten Retreat March 11
PALOS PARK, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — Mother Gabriella of the Orthodox Church in America's Holy Dormition Monastery, Rives Junction, MI will be the guest speaker at a Pan-Orthodox retreat at...
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FOCUS North America's YES Program coming to Chicago April 28-30
CHICAGO, IL [MW Diocese Communications/FOCUS NA] — FOCUS North America's YES Program will be held in Chicago April 28-30, 2017. YES — "Youth Equipped to Serve"— offers a wonderful opportunity for...
View ArticleCleveland-area Triumph of Orthodoxy Vesper Service announced
CLEVELAND, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — His Eminence, Metropolitan Savas of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh will be the chief celebrant and homilist at the Cleveland-area Sunday of...
View ArticleDetroit's Council of Orthodox Christian Churches to sponsor Sunday Lenten...
DETROIT, MI [MW Diocese Communications/COCC] — The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit [COCC] will hold the first in its annual series of Vesper services on the five Sundays...
View ArticleChicago-area pan-Orthodox Akathist Hymn to be celebrated April 4
LAKE VILLA, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — The Orthodox Christian Clergy Association of Chicago will sponsor its annual lenten pan-Orthodox celebration of the Akathist Hymn at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday,...
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Conference cruise to Alaska September 2-9, 2017
SITKA, AK [OCA] — With the blessing of His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin of San Francisco and the West and the support of His Grace, Bishop David of Sitka and Alaska, a pilgrimage cruise and...
View ArticleVacancy at Holy Assumption Church, Marblehead, OH announced
CHICAGO, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — A pastoral vacancy at Holy Assumption Church, Marblehead, OH was announced recently by His Grace, Bishop Paul of Chicago and the Midwest, Orthodox Church in...
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Bishop Neofitos of Kenya preaches at Cleveland Deanery Akathist Service in...
CAMPBELL, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — Clergy and faithful from the Diocese of the Midwest's Cleveland Deanery were joined by the Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association of the Mahoning Valley in...
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Kenyan Archbishop Makarios expresses gratitude to Bishop Paul, MW faithful...
CHICAGO, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — In mid-March 2017, His Grace, Bishop Paul received a letter from His Eminence, Archbishop Makarios of Kenya, formally thanking him and the Diocese of the...
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John Sutko awarded Order of St. Romanos by Holy Synod of Bishops
SYOSSET, NY [MW Diocese Communications] — During their Spring Session March 28-31, 2017, the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops awarded the Order of Saint Romanos to John Sutko in recognition of his...
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Annual Midwest Clergy Convocation to be held in Livonia, MI May 1-3, 2017
LIVONIA, MI [MW Diocese Communications] — Holy Transfiguration Church here will be the site of the annual Clergy Convocation of the Diocese of the Midwest May 1-3, 2017. The keynote speaker at the...
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PASCHAL MESSAGE OF HIS GRACE, BISHOP PAUL
If the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through...
View ArticleMetropolitan Tikhon sends condolences to Coptic Pope Tawadros after Palm...
During these days when we walk with our Lord Jesus Christ on the way to His voluntary Passion, we are filled with great sorrow at learning of the tragic news of yet another atrocity perpetrated against...
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Bishop Paul installs new pastor at Holy Apostles Church, Normal, IL
NORMAL, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — His Grace, Bishop Paul installed Priest David Gresham as Rector of Holy Apostles Church here during his archpastoral visit on Friday and Saturday, April 7 and...
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Chicago to celebrate IOCC's 25th Anniversary with banquet, silent auction May 11
DES PLAINES, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — The 25th Anniversary of International Orthodox Christian Charities [IOCC] will be celebrated with a grand banquet and silent auction at Cafe La Cave, 2777...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Matushka Barbara Dye
OVERLAND PARK, KS [MW Diocese Communications] — Matushka Barbara [Adams] Dye, wife of the late Archpriest Gregory Dye, fell asleep in the Lord on Friday, April 28, 2017.
View ArticleOCA Archivist to present 2017 St. Alexis Lecture at Minneapolis cathedral
MINNEAPOLIS, MN [MW Diocese Communications] — Alexis Liberovsky, Archivist of the Orthodox Church in America, will deliver the 2017 Saint Alexis [Toth] Lecture at Saint Mary Cathedral here at 7:00 p.m....
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Detroit-area presentation on Crete Council to be offered May 15
STERLING HEIGHTS, MI [OCW Detroit/MW Diocese Communications] — His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Detroit will speak on the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox...
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John Sutko to receive St. Romanos Award
BURR RIDGE, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — John Sutko, whose life-long, exemplary dedication to Orthodox Christian liturgical music has been recognized far beyond the choir loft of Saint Peter and...
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