New York, October 11, 2022
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More than a decade of work by clergy, parishioners, and religious and public organizations culminated on Friday with the formal dedication of a New York City street in honor of Patriarch St. Tikhon, the great missionary who served in North America before becoming the Patriarch of Moscow.
The “Saint Tikhon Way” was festively unveiled at the intersection of Madison Avenue and 97 Street in Manhattan outside the St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral that was built and consecrated by St. Tikhon. The event was timed to the 228th anniversary of the establishment of the Orthodox Mission in North America in 1794, and came two days before the feast of St. Tikhon on Sunday.
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The ceremony was attended by clergy and parishioners of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and management and partners of the Russian American Heritage Center, reports the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA.
Olga Sergeevna Zatsepina, President of the Russian-American Heritage Center, spoke of the unveiling of the Saint Tikhon Way sign as a “reward to all those who have worked to perpetuate the memory of St. Tikhon.”
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Last June, the stretch of street in Brooklyn where the St. Nicholas Antiochian Cathedral is located was named St. Raphael of Brooklyn Place in honor of another great American saint.
In April of this year, a street in Bronx was named after Met. Theophan (Noli), who established Albnanian-spekaing Orthodoxy in the U.S. and founded the Orthodox Church of Albania in 1923.
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