On Clean Wednesday, February 26, with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and NY, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad and at the invitation of His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, His Grace Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk read the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in the Synodal Cathedral of "the Sign" in New York city.