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Nativity of Our Lord 2025 To the Clergy, Monastics, and the Faithful of the Diocese of the West, brothers and sisters in Christ:Christ is born! Glorify Him!“Make glad, O righteous! Greatly rejoice, O heavens! You mountains, dance f...
December 13-14, 2025 The Diocese’s Thriving Parishes Project visited St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Tarzana, CA the weekend of December 13-14. The Church Health Team had its daylong training beginning Saturday morning. Parish Rect...
November 17-18, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The historic Holy Trinity Cathedral here will host a hierarchical celebration honoring the life and missionary legacy of the Holy Patriarch Saint Tikhon, Enlightener of America on Monday, Nov. 17 and ...
October 25-26, 2025 Thriving Parishes Project Program Director Priest Andrew Smith and Project Manager Brittany Yeager traveled to St. John of Damascus Church in Poway, CA for a weekend of training the local Church Health Team and intr...
Thriving Parishes Project at St. Innocent Church in Pleasanton, CA | November 1-2, 2025 On Saturday, November 1, Priest Andrew Smith, Program Director for the Thriving Parishes Project, and Project Manager Brittany Yeager met with the ...
October 23rd, 2025Dearly Beloved Fathers, Mothers, Brothers and Sisters:For many years, the missions of our Diocese have been organized into a Missionary District. Under the leadership of our mission deans, this was a great tool for plan...
“This is the day which the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad therein.” FORT ROSS, CA – On Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, God blessed Fort Ross State Historic Park and its environs with beautiful, calm, and still sunny weather as His Beati...
September 17, 2025 Choir Directors and Choir Members from St. Juvenaly and Holy Ascension congregations met together in Waimea (about half-way between Hilo and Kona) on Wednesday, September 17. This was a direct result of the first ann...
Reposted from OCA.org: https://www.oca.org/news/headline-news/washington-court-issues-order-protecting-seal-of-confession On Friday, October 10, 2025, attorneys for the State of Washington filed a stipulated Order through which the state governmen...
Bishop Vasily of San Francisco and the West | October 6, 2025 St. Innocent Church Pleasanton, California In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. When we come into the church on Sundays or feasts like today, when the ...
