| Photo: OCA On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon welcomed to the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America a delegation from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by His Grace Bishop Viktor of Baryshivka, a vicar of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, and His Grace Bishop Dionysios Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi. The two Hierarchs travelled to the United States two weeks ago for a personal visit. His Beatitude welcomed the guests to the Saint Sergius Chapel where the Hierarchs were able to venerate the many relics of American and Russian Saints present in the Chapel. Bishop Viktor and Bishop Dionysios conveyed the brotherly greetings of Metropolitan Onuphry to Metropolitan Tikhon, acknowledging the strong bond that has existed between the two Churches for many years.The two Hierarchs thanked Metropolitan Tikhon for giving his blessing for their visit and taking the time to meet with them. Metropolitan Tikhon asked them to convey his own greetings to Metropolitan Onuphry and inquired about His Beatitude’s health, especially during the recent difficult times. Bishop Viktor explained the hardships endured by the Ukrainian faithful but also remarked that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remains strong and faithful by the Grace of God but also through the leadership of Metropolitan Onuphry who offers a constant example of humility, faith, and piety. The bishops also thanked Metropolitan Tikhon and the whole Orthodox Church in America for their prayers and support, especially in the midst of the present challenges. On behalf of Metropolitan Onuphry , Bishop Viktor extended an invitation to His Beatitude to visit Kyiv in the near future. Metropolitan Tikhon thanked them for the invitation and assured the bishops of his continued prayers and support to Metropolitan Onuphry and the whole Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| Metropolitan Tikhon Presides over a Symposium on the Life of the Orthodox Church in America Source: DECR Photo: St. Tikhon University’s website On December 8, 2019, His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, who is on a visit to Moscow for the 25th anniversary of the Moscow representation of the Orthodox Church in America, visited the Moscow Diocesan House – the main building of the St. Tikhon Orthodox University of the Humanities, to preside over a symposium devoted to the life of the Orthodox Church in America. The symposium was attended by members of the OCA delegation including Archbishop David of Sitka; Archimandrite Andrei, Bishop-elect of Cleveland, Auxiliary to Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Episcopate; Archpriest Alexander Rentel, chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America; Archpriest Daniel Andreyuk, OCA representative to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; and Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, secretary to the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. Present at the symposium were also Bishop Clement of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov; Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate administrative secretariat; Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations; D. I. Petrovsky, DECR; Moscow clergy and laity, professors and students of the St. Tikhon University and other theological schools in Moscow. Before the beginning of the symposium, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America visited the museum of the Russian Church’s new martyrs and confessors formed in the university. At the Diocesan House council hall, in which the historic 1917-1918 Local Council took place, Metropolitan Tikhon was met by the choir of the university’s department of theology who sang in English the hymns of praise to St. Tikhon the Patriarch of All Russia. The rector of the university Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyev, in his welcoming speech remembered that almost 28 years ago, Protopresbyter John Meyendorff, dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, spoke at the first conference held by the university soon after its opening. Now the university was receiving with joy a delegation of the Orthodox Church in America led by its Primate, he said. |
| Tweet Нравится PHOTOS: Memory of Hieromartyr Hilarion solemnly honored at Sretensky Monastery Moscow, December 28, 2016 December 28, 2016 at Sretensky Monastery the memory of the habitation’s Heavenly protector—Hieromartyr Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey—was honored. The early Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Archbishop Theognost, abbot of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. The late Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the abbot of Sretensky Monastery Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk with the brethren, alumnae of Sretensky Seminary and numerous guests clergy. During the Divine Liturgy His Grace Bishop Tikhon celebrated the ordination to the priesthood of Deacon John Kudlasevich, a graduated of Sretensky Seminary. At the end of the service, Vladyka Tikhon, with all those gathered in the church, read a prayer to Hieromartyr Hilarion. In his homily Bishop Tikhon noted: “Vladyka Hilarion is an unusually important example of Christian life for us all and for future generations. It’s no accident that in the hieromartyr’s kontakion it says ‘thou wast not afraid of the minions of the coming Antichrist.’ We all know what testing befell the Christians of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s. In those days, when it seemed that everything was collapsing all around, Hieromartyr Hilarion meekly accepted everything as the special allowance of God, as the Providence of God and tried to penetrate into the Divine plan for his times, for his contemporaries, for himself… What amazing lessons Vladyka Hilarion has taught us. From very earliest childhood he felt the teaching in the Law of God and in the sciences that reveal the Law of God in history. He opened the Divine world for us and from very earliest childhood was wise, comprehending the world.” The night before at the All Night Vigil an important event in the lives of the first year seminarians took place—they received the blessing of the rector, Bishop Tikhon, to wear the cassock. |
| Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson Скачать epub pdf BELAVIN, TIKHON BELAVIN, TIKHON, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, American missionary, martyr, St. (19 January 1865–7 April 1925). Baptized Basil, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1888 and was appointed to the faculty of the Pskov Theological Seminary. Tonsured a monk and ordained priest in 1891, he became rector of the Kazan and Kholm Theological Seminaries, and in 1897 was made archimandrite and consecrated Bishop of Lublin. In 1898 he was appointed Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska with the bishop’s seat in San Francisco. Arriving at age thirty-three as one of the youngest hierarchs of the Russian Church, he entered his cathedral church in San Francisco on 23 December. In evaluating his archpastoral assignment, three difficult circumstances stand out: 1) The Missionary Diocese included Alaska, Canada, and the U.S., and was too big to successfully administrate; 2) this diocese of the Russian Church included all ethnic Orthodox from throughout the world, a huge diversity of languages and cultures; and 3) neither New York, Chicago, nor San Francisco had proper church buildings. In response to this circumstance, in 1902 two cathedrals were completed in New York, one Russian, one Syrian. In 1903 Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago was completed, as designed by Louis Sullivan. (This is the only Sullivan church in the world-built under the supervision of Fr. Joh n Kochurov [q.v.].) In 1903 to 1904 Tikhon successfully established an auxiliary bishopric in Alaska with its cathedral at Sitka and an auxiliary bishopric of Brooklyn for the Syro-Arabic Mission for which Archimandrite Raphael Hawaweeny (q.v.) was consecrated; at the same time, the Greek Holy Trinity parish in New York became the private property of three Greek laymen. In 1905 the episcopal see was transferred from San Francisco to New York and Tikhon was made archbishop. In 1906, after the San Francisco earthquake, Tikhon acquired the present site of Holy Trinity Cathedral, San Francisco (completed in 1909), one of the oldest Orthodox parishes in the western hemisphere. |
| With the conclusion of festivities marking the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the US capital is being readied for the influx of hundreds of thousands of marchers at the annual March for Life tomorrow—January 27, 2017. Bishop Paul with some of the Orthodox Christian marchers at Chicago’s March for Life on January 15, 2017. As in years past, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon will join other Orthodox Christian hierarchs, seminarians, clergy and faithful from around the country in the annual March, for which this year’s theme is “The Power of One.” While in the nation’s capital, Metropolitan will also attend this evening’s Vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Other hierarchs who will be participating include His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel; His Eminence, Archbishop Melchisedek; and His Eminence, Archbishop Michael; His Grace, Bishop Maxim of the Serbian Orthodox Church; His Grace, Bishop John of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of north America; and His Grace, Bishop Dimitrios of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago. The March, at which the Orthodox hierarchs will join New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan and representatives of other Christian communities, will begin at noon on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Orthodox Christian participants are asked to gather at the “Orthodox Christians for Life” banner, which will be prominently displayed on 15th Street North West and Constitution Avenue. Metropolitan Tikhon and other hierarchs will be present on the stage for the opening prayers and pre-March speeches. Metropolitan Tikhon will lead the Orthodox Christian marchers in a prayer service for the victims of abortion after the speeches rather than at the end of the March, as previously announced . Metropolitan Tikhon also will offer the benediction at the annual Rose Banquet on the evening of the March. The March will cap off two weeks of similar gatherings across the country. On Sunday, January 15, His Grace, Bishop Paul delivered the opening prayer at Chicago’s fourth annual March for Life, which drew an estimated 10,000 participants from across the Midwest—the largest representation ever. |
| Metropolitan Tikhon presides at the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral in New York City on the day of its patronal feast Source: OCA Photo: OCA On Sunday, December 19, 2021, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, and at the invitation of His Grace Matthew Bishop of Sourozh and Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA & Canada, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon presided at the Divine Liturgy at New York City’s Saint Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral on the day of the Cathedral’s patronal feast. Concelebrating with His Beatitude were Archpriest George Konyev, Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, Archpriest Alexander Golubov, Igumen Nikodim, Dean of the Cathedral and Secretary of the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes of the USA, and Priest Alessandro Margheritino, Secretary of the Orthodox Church in America. Metropolitan Tikhon’s delegation included Deacon Peter Ilchuk, Executive Secretary to the Metropolitan. After the Divine Liturgy, Igumen Nikodim shared the greetings of Bishop Matthew who welcomed His Beatitude, and noted his regrets for not being able to participate in the celebration. Metropolitan Tikhon offered his greetings to both His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Bishop Matthew, thanking them for the opportunity to celebrate the Divine Liturgy on such beautiful and joyous day in which we honor the beloved Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. His Beatitude also thanked Father George and the Cathedral’s clergy for their hospitality and love. In his homily at the end of the Divine Liturgy , His Beatitude pointed out that, “In today’s Gospel, we read that the crowds gathered around the Lord Jesus Christ and ‘sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed them all.’ Perhaps, hearing this, we wish that we, too, could have seen Jesus with our eyes, touched him with our hands, and have received healing for the wounds of our bodies, our souls, our hearts. But of course, the Lord is always present to us, not just spiritually, in our inner being, but physically, through the saints.” Metropolitan Tikhon then remarked that, “Wherever there is sanctity, there is Jesus Christ. And in some cases, in accordance with God’s providence, the holiness of a person is so great that, even after his death, his body remains with us, visibly full of God’s healing grace, always making Christ’s power present in our lives. This is the case with Saint Nicholas.” |
| Bishop Paul and pilgrims received by Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. Photo: oca.org His Grace, Bishop Paul led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from May 26 through June 5, 2019, visiting the many holy sites and shrines associated with the life of our Lord. His Eminence, Archbishop Theophanes of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, accompanied Bishop Paul and those traveling with him for most of their journey. Having lived in the Holy Land for over 55 years, Archbishop Theophanes provided a wealth of information based on his vast biblical knowledge and experience. In addition to visiting and praying at multiple sites associated with the life of our Lord and the Church in the Holy Land, Bishop Paul and the pilgrims were warmly received at an audience with His Beatitude, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, where they they visited the Patriarch’s chapel and beautiful gardens. His Beatitude and Bishop Paul, who greeted the Patriarch on behalf of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, exchanged gifts, and each pilgrim was given a commemorative coin and icon as mementos of their visit. Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem with Bishop Paul. “I am most grateful to His Beatitude, Patriarch Theophilus, for blessing our visits to these sites and for giving us Archbishop Theophanes as a guide,” said Bishop Paul. “His Eminence opened many doorways for us. Because of him, we as a group, were able to venerate such sites as the Nativity of our Lord and the Holy Sepulcher without excessive waits. At all of these sites, I read the Gospel relative to the sites we were visiting. Our entire group was grateful for the assistance of Archbishop Theophanes to make our pilgrimage a prayerful one.” While in the Holy Land, Bishop Paul celebrated the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the Russian Orthodox Monastery and Chapel of the Ascension [Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| Metropolitan Tikhon attends Centennial Commemoration of Armenian Genocide in US Capital Source: OCA His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, was among the numerous religious and civic leaders who marked the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in ceremonies celebrated at the National Cathedral here on Thursday, May 7, 2015. The gathering recalled the Armenian Genocide, during which some 1.5 million Armenians perished at the hands of the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. Presiding were His Holiness, Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians; His Holiness, Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia; and His Holiness, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch and All the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church. In addition to Metropolitan Tikhon, other Orthodox Christian hierarchs present included His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; His Eminence, Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; His Eminence, Metropolitan Antony and His Grace, Bishop Daniel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA; and His Grace, Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in the USA. Also in attendance were the President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargasyan; US Vice-President Joe Biden; US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power; and the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, who addressed the thousands in attendance. “Today, as we commemorate the holy martyrs of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey, we remember the hundreds of thousands of Greek and Syriac Christians who were also victimized by the same perpetrators,” Catholicos Karekin said. “We remember the other crimes against humanity of the 20th Century: the Jewish Holocaust, the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda and elsewhere.” On April 24, 2015, Metropolitan Tikhon joined the heads of Church delegations, the diplomatic community and representatives of many of the world’s governments in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, at a ceremony led by Armenian President Serzh Sargasyan and Catholicos Karekin. [See related story . He also attended the Rite of Glorification of the Armenian Martyrs at the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, the seat of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and addressed the Global Forum on the Armenian Genocide. [The text of Metropolitan Tikhon’s address may be found here .] |
| Acting Administrator of the Patriarchate Parishes in America Meets with Metropolitan Tikhon Source: DECR Photo: mospat.ru On September 25, 2019, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, acting administrator of the Patriarchate Parishes in America, began his working visit to the United States of America. On the first day of his visit, he called on the administrative center of the Orthodox Church in America in Syossete to meet with His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washingon and Metropolitan of All America and Canada. The hierarchs prayed and partook of the Holy Gifts during the Divine Liturgy at the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh whose memory was celebrated on that day according to the new calendar. After the service, Bishop Mathew warmly greeted His Beatitude Tikhon, the clergy and staff of the administrative center on the occasion of the patronal feast. The archpastor read out messages of greetings from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, on the occasion of the forthcoming name day and presented His Beatitude an icon of the Royal Passion-Bearers and a bouquet of flowers. During a talk, which was held in a warm fraternal atmosphere of mutual understanding, they discussed the cooperation of the two Churches and pressing issues of inter-Orthodox interaction. They also dealt with preparations for the next year commemorative events devoted to the 225 th anniversary of the Orthodox mission initiated by Valamo monks in North America and the 50 th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church’s granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America. Taking part in the meeting were also Archpriest Alexander Rentel, chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, Archdeacon Joseph Matusyak, secretary of the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Rev. Mark Rashkov, Moscow Patriarchate representation in the USA, and Subdeacon Nikolay Trubnikov, personal secretary to Bishop Matthew. |
| Photo: http://oca.org His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon will preside at the 113th Annual Pilgrimage to Saint Tikhon’s Monastery , which officially opens on Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. with the greeting of the Hawaiian Myrrh Streaming Icon of the Iveron Mother of God at the entrance arch. Vespers and Matins will follow at 4:00 p.m. in the Monastery Church of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk. The icon will be available for veneration throughout the Pilgrimage, which formally ends on Memorial Day—Monday, May 29. Metropolitan Tikhon, President of Saint Tikhon’s Seminary , will preside at the school’s 75th annual Commencement on Saturday, May 27. The day will open with the celebration of the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the monastery church at 9:00 a.m., followed by a meal in the dining hall. Commencement Exercises will begin at 1:00 p.m. At the invitation of Metropolitan Tikhon, His Grace, Bishop Thomas of the Diocese of Charleston, Oakland, and the Mid-Atlantic of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America will deliver the commencement address . The day will close with the celebration of the Resurrection Vigil at 4:00 p.m., followed by dinner for all pilgrims in the dining hall. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, May 28, followed by a meal for all pilgrims in the dining hall. Vespers and Matins will be celebrated at 4:00 p.m. On Memorial Day — Monday, May 29 — the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in the Monastery Church at 7:30 a.m. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m., followed by a Panikhida for Veterans, at All Saints Bell Tower at 12:15 p.m. The Akathistos Hymn to Saint Alexis will be celebrated in the monastery church at 1:30 p.m. The Molieben to the Most Holy Theotokos with the Anointing of the Sick, Infirm and All Pilgrims will be celebrated at the monastery bell tower at 2:30 p.m. The pilgrimage will close with the celebration of Vespers and Matins at 4:00 p.m. Concurrent with the Pilgrimage, the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute [PaTRAM] will hold its Memorial Day Conductors’ and Singers’ Workshop at Saint Tikhon’s. Conference participants will sing the liturgical responses during the Pilgrimage. |
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