On October 2, 2020 the Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate, Archimandrite Alexander Belya, visited the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Manhattan where he met with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros.
With the blessing of the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America Elpidophoros Archimandrite Alexander Belya, the Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate, made a pilgrimage to the Orthodox Christian holy sites of Czechia and Slovakia.
September 1 marks the beginning of the Indiction or the Ecclesiastical (Church) New Year. On this day His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, met the clergy of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese... Read more...
From August 31 – September 2 the clergy from the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate traveled to the Holy places of Constantinople (Istanbul).
On July 2, the feast day of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, seven children were baptized in the St. Nicholas Monastery of Fort Myers. It is the only Russian monastery in Florida.
On May 24th the Orthodox Church celebrates the feast day of the Saints Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs. They are the patrons of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate, which was established by the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on... Read more...
On May 24, the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Archbishop Elpidophoros visited the Slavic Vicariate for the first time.
May 24th was the commemoration of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs. After the Divine Liturgy, Archbishop Elpidophoros had the official website of the Vicariate demonstrated to him.
Holy Pascha 2020
On November 2/15, the Church commemorates the Fourth Century Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidophoros, and Anempodistus.
