The mosaic was gifted by the family of Sava Kovacevic in Melbourne and installed through the efforts of Orthodox faithful from Brisbane.
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Monastery in Waymart, PA, wrapped up its 121st annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage yesterday, with a special focus this year on the 100th anniversary of the repose of St. Tikhon of Moscow.
His Eminence Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk, a hierarch of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and abbot of the Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra, has been held in detention for well over a year now, and he was just ordered to remain for another two months.
The Mission Center has been laboring in Turkana for many years now.
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus voted to dethrone His Eminence Metropolitan Tychikos as the ruling hierarch of the important Paphos Metropolitan, though he remains a bishop and a member of the Synod. The decision has caused great unrest, especially in Paphos, where hundreds of parishioners gathered at the city hall on Sunday in a show of support for the deposed hierarch.