His Holiness, Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and all Rus', congratulated His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, on the occasion of his 55th birthday.
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On May 16, 2026, continuing his archpastoral visit to the city of Philadelphia, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, visited St. Andrew Cathedral.
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On Saturday, May 16, 2026—the fifth Saturday after Pascha—a joint Paschal divine service was served in St. Michael Church in Philadelphia, PA officiated by the Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh.
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On May 14, 2026, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh—Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada—arrived in New York, as part of his Paschal visit to North America.
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On May 4, 2026, with the blessing of Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh—Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada—visited the Diocesan Cathedral of Our Lady "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in San Francisco, CA.
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On May 4, 2026, a meeting took place in Holy Trinity Cathedral—the diocesan seat of the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America in San Francisco—between the Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, and Bishop Vasily of San Francisco and the West.
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On May 3, 2026—the 4th Sunday after Pascha that of the Paralytic —Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in San Francisco, CA.
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On May 2, 2026—Saturday in the Third Week after Pascha and the feast of Blessed Matrona of Moscow—Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, celebrated Divine Liturgy in Our Lady of Kazan Church in San Diego, CA.
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On May 1, 2026, following a visit to the Church of Our Lady of Kazan in San Diego, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh—Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada—visited Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the very site where the European history of California effectively began.
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On May 1, 2026, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh—Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada—arrived in San Diego, CA, as part of his visit to the deaneries in the United States.
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On April 30, 2026, upon his arrival in the United States, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh—Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada—visited the Mission of the Holy Archangel Gabriel and the Port of the Holy Apostle Peter in Los Angeles.
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On April 30, 2026, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, arrived in the United States.
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On Saturday April 25, the Atlantic States Deanery conducted a special event at St. Michael the Archangel Church in Philadelphia to honor the memory and historical legacy of the Holy Hierarch Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow.
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In all its richness and diversity, the human language knows no words more joyful and desired for the believing heart than this overwhelming testimony to the victory of life over death and good over evil.
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The Atlantic States Deanery of the Patriarchal Parishes will welcome Dr. Scott Kenworthy to give a special presentation on the life of the Holy Patriarch Tikhon on Saturday, April 25, 2026 beginning at 10:00 AM.
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On Saturday, March 28—the Feast of the Laudation of the Most Holy Theotokos—at the Diocesan Cathedral of the Western American Diocese in San Francisco, California, during the Divine Liturgy celebrated by a host of hierarchs led by the First Hierarch
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On Saturday, March 28, the feast of the Laudation of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Divine Liturgy for the newly reposed Archpriest Basil Micek was celebrated in Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Scranton, PA. The evening prior, March 27, the funeral for a priest was served.
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On March 20, 2026, after a prolonged illness, Archpriest Basil Micek—cleric of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and rector of Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania—reposed in the Lord. He was 77 years old.
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As is the custom in recent years, on March 1, the clergy and faithful of the Central States Deanery gathered to pray Lenten Vespers.
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On February 27, the Icon Museum and Research Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, opened an exhibition of Oleg Kushnirsky's unique collection of Russian icons. The exhibition features icons from the 17th to 20th centuries by masters of Palekh, Guslitsa, Mstera, and other renowned icon-painting schools.
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With heartfelt joy I greet all of you and wholeheartedly congratulate you on the radiant feast of the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ!
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Please accept my heartfelt congratulations to you all on the radiant feast day of the Nativity of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ as I address you with the words of the ancient Christian hymn:
