His Eminence, our Chief Shepherd Metropolitan Demetrius of America and His Eminence Metropolitan Moses of Toronto, served the Divine Liturgy at the cathedral of St. Nicholas in Archanon, Attika Greece for the Sunday after Theophany. Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Attika and Beotia was present but did not preside.
The Divine Liturgy was concluded with the blessing and cutting of the St. Basil cake for the parish Sunday school.
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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