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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 ...
Repost from: https://wadiocese.org/news/1069/fundraiser-new-windows-for-the-chapel-at-fort-rossThe joint committee, comprising members of the Western American Diocese (ROCOR) and the Diocese of the West (OCA), who are organizing the Cent...
Friday, Nov. 7 - Sunday, Nov. 9 It is a joy that our Diocese offers us a retreat for priest's wives, deacon's wives, and widowed of the same for a third year in a row! This will be a low-key, quiet weekend with prayer and fellowship as the ...
Thriving Parishes Project Retreat, Phoenix, AZ | July 14, 2025 | Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, AZ Close to 50 people gathered in Phoenix in advance of the All-American Council to participate in the Diocese’s Thriving Parishes Projec...
REMARKS by Fr. John Dresko Retirement of Archbishop Benjamin 15 July 2025 Your Beatitude, Esteemed Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Beloved Brothers and Sisters: We gather today to celebrate the life, ministry, and retirement of my beloved...
