His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox begins a six-day visit to New York today.
“Fr. Justin was certainly with us and among us,” during the anniversary events, the monastery reflects.
“The ‘Orthodox Church of Ukraine’ is a non-canonical church. They were ordained without grace,” Met. Timotej explained.
The Exarchate currently includes a number of clerics from Lithuania who were defrocked by diocesan authorities, as well as clerics from Belarus and others.
Priest Kirill Zholtkevich
My spiritual training began with my grandfather, a priest. He took me into the altar when I was four. Since then I have been in church and have always been surrounded by clergy.