Hieromonk Filotej (Radosav Petrović), a long-serving clergyman of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica–Midwestern America reposed in the Lord on September 28, at the age of 84.
The Church of the Resurrection in Sacramento was consecrated on Sunday by His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas, fulfilling a long-held dream for the Romanian community in the region.
The Rosiers monastic establishment, the first monastery of Romanian tradition in the West, was founded in 1991 and reorganized during his doctoral studies in France by Archimandrite Ioachim (Giosanu), assisted by several willing persons and families.
The fires on Chios broke out on June 22, 2025, in multiple locations including Kofinas, Agia Anna, Agios Makarios, and Agios Markos. The blazes forced the evacuation of at least 16 villages and burned over 11,000 acres of forest and agricultural land.
The property under consideration is a traditionally built, east-facing former Lutheran church located minutes from the parish’s current location.