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Join your fellow Orthodox believers in the 50th Anniversary celebrations of St. Herman of Alaska’s glorification and the 50th Anniversary of the OCA’s autocephaly in 2020. There will be weekly trips to Alaska over the summer of 2020 spon...
With almost sixty campers and staff members, St Peter's Monastery Youth Camp 2019 nearly doubled in size this year. Campers came from as far away as Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Portland almost matched the numbers coming from Colorado Springs.&nb...
His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin led the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of the West in the annual (since 1925) pilgrimage to Fort Ross on the 4th of July. It was a joy to be with brothers and sisters in Christ united in thanksgiving on a be...
Diocesan clergy and faithful are invited to participate in the annual July 4th pilgrimage to, and liturgy at, historic Fort Ross in Jenner, CA. Archbishop BENJAMIN will celebrate the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, assisted by diocesan clergy, at 10:30 ...
Holy Resurrection church, Tacoma, Washington was blessed to have His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin visit the weekend of June 1st & 2nd. At Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning, His Eminence tonsured Theodore Kvamme a Reader, awarded the ...
Thursday May 30, 2019 marked the 30th Anniversary of the repose of the outstanding hierarch and former archpastor of our Diocese of the West – Archbishop John Shahovskoy. Archbishop John served as the Archbishop of San Francisco for nearly thre...
Spokane, Washington - from Staff Reports St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church in north Spokane will celebrate its first Pascha, or Easter, service at midnight Saturday, one week after the Western Christian Easter. The church was formed in the summer 20...
Today is the birthday of our hierarch, Archbishop BENJAMIN! The Diocesan Council marked the occasion at its May 15th meeting in San Francisco with a cake at lunch, and the diocesan clergy sang many years to His Eminence at the end of the clergy retre...
Sacred Heart Retreat House Alhambra, CA May 21-23, 2019 Clergy of the Diocese of the West gathered for three days this week at the Sacred Heart Retreat House in Alhambra (Southern California) for a mandatory retreat. The retreat speaker, Hieromonk Ma...
Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! The canonization of a human being is the ultimate proof of God's love: He cares for us so much that he enables us to live a life filled with His light, and to shine that light out to the world. ...
