On December 12, EmblemHealth’s Manhattan office hosted the final Rejoice & Reflect Celebration of 2023, organized by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships.
On December 3, the 26th Sunday after Pentecost, a new clergyman of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate was introduced at the Brooklyn Cathedral of St. John the Forerunner & Baptist.
On November 25, Archimandrite Alexander, Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of America and Bishop-Elect of Nicopolis, visited Moldova at the invitation of the Metropolitan Peter of Bessarabia, the Exarch of the New Lands of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
On November 22, the patronal feast of Blessed Matrona of Moscow (+1952) was celebrated by the Miami Cathedral, which is the first church in America consecrated in honor of this Saint.
On November 2, the Church celebrates the memory of the 4th century martyrs of Persia: SS Akindinos, Pegasias, Anempodistos, Elpidophoros and Afthonios.
One of the traditions of the Orthodox Church is the holding joint services by the clergy from different communities on the anniversaries and the feast days of individual parishes.
On Saturday, October 14, 2023, the feast of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God, Fr. Alexander Belya, Rector of St. John the Forerunner Cathedral in Brooklyn, organized a pilgrimage to the Skete of the Holy Protection in Buena... Read more...
On September 3, Archpriest Oleksandr, Rector of St. John the Forerunner & Baptist Cathedral in Brooklyn, New York, celebrated his 67th birthday. He is also the Confessor of the parishes of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate.
“Remember your teachers, who preached the word of God to you, and, looking at the end of their lives, imitate their faith” (Heb. 13.7).
On August 28, the feast of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos, Archimandrite Alexander Belya, the Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of America, led the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Matrona in Miami.
