Orthodox clergy gathered at Queen’s Park, which houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, on Tuesday, April 22 to celebrate the first annual Orthodox Christian Week.
Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon, who served as abbot of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, West Virginia, for 10 years, reposed in the Lord today.
The hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church was 84 years old. He served in the episcopal dignity for 40 years.
As St. Gregory of Nazianzus once said, “Baptism is God’s most beautiful and magnificent gift… a gift which no one can buy, but everyone can receive.”
The Sumy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held its annual “Bright Deeds for the Bright Day” charity drive during Great Lent this year.