Bishop Vissarion (Nechaev)
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Today we celebrate the memory of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. This Apostle means very much to the Russian Church. There is tradition that says that during the course of his apostolic journeys, he reached the hills of Kiev and erected a cross there, blessed the people, and pronounced a prophecy: “On these hills will shine forth the grace of God, and a great city will be created here, and the Lord will raise up many churches in it.”
Jamey Bennett
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Orthodoxy came to America in four waves. The first wave was by missionary activity in Alaska, a land that belonged to Russia at the time.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
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The hiatus between the early and undeveloped culture of Christian Rome and the growth of a new Western Christian culture, between, in other words, the fifth and the eleventh centuries, signified the formation of a different cultural ambience in the West from that in the East. The Christian West did not have the time to Christianize the pagan, classical culture of Rome, whereas the East made a new start.
“Our church history is a proud one in its 100 years of existence in Monessen and serving the Mon Valley for the Orthodox faithful and friends. It has withstood good and bad times, the wars of the world, a stock market crash, and many more adversities, but will continue to prosper in the years to come with our friends and neighbors in this Mon Valley area.”
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Bishop Nikolai was born on 13 Oct 1891, to a pious and faithful Old Believer family in Siberia. His grandmother, frightened that the newborn might not live, had him baptized without recourse to a priest. Worried about his irregular baptism, she made a vow to God that her grandson would grow up as an Orthodox Christian.