Metropolitan Pavlos concludes 6-week trip to Greece

On Sep. 5/18, 2005 His Eminence Metropolitan Pavlos departed fron New York's JFK airport for a 6-week visit to Greece in order to take part in the Feast Day of the monastery of His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos, the first Synod meeting of the new ecclesiastical year, the 50 year Memorial Service for Metropolitan Chrysostomos (Kavouridis) and the commemoration of the 100th year since the blessed repose of the Righteous Pachomios (the Elder of St. Nectarios of Aegina). His Eminence returned to America on Monday Oct. 17/31.
Missions

Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Mission, Tucson, Arizona

Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church is a beautiful mission parish near downtown Tucson, a city in southern Arizona. It was started in 1997 by Father John Bockman, who was a missionary Priest formerly serving missions in Tennessee and Massachusetts since 1990. Father John served the faithful in Tucson and the surrounding area in his home Chapel until his repose in November of 2000. His wife, Presbytera Valerie, continued to make her home Chapel available for the mission, with clergy from Saint Nectarios Orthodox Church in Seattle and His Eminence, Metropolitan Moses of Toronto (then of Portland), visiting to provide the Divine Services.

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Youth

2025 Youth Conference

Please join us for the 2025 youth conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada! To learn more, visit the conference website.

Ask A Priest

Morning and Evening Prayers

Q. Are the prayers in the blue prayer book [A Prayerbook for Orthodox Christians by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery —ed.] compulsory for everyone? I mean their morning prayers and the service of Small Compline. My confessor gave me a special rule but wasn’t clear about whether this replaced the book prayers or was in addition to them. Read more...