OCA.org News Digest—August 21, 2009

OCA Diocesan News and Events

Archdiocese of Canada

“Alaskan Orthodox Texts” available on line

http://www.archdiocese.ca/news.htm

http://www.asna.ca/alaska/index.html

Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania

Wyoming Valley Vacation Bible School 2009

http://doepa.org/news_090818_1.html

Sisters of Mercy from Belarus visit diocesan parishes

http://doepa.org/news_090810_1.html

http://doepa.org/news_090810_1.html

Diocese of the Midwest

48th Diocesan Assembly to be Held October 5-7, 2009, Holy Trinity Church, Overland Park, KS

http://midwestdiocese.org/assembly.html

Diocese of New England

His Grace, Bishop Nikon to visit Holy Resurrection Church, Clairmont, NH, for celebration of parish’s 100th anniversary

http://www.dneoca.org/parish_news.html

Diocese of the South

Diocesan Episcopal Search Committee Announced

https://www.dosoca.org/latest_news.html

“Spiritual Maturity in Christ” — Keynote Address of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah to the 2009 Diocesan Assembly (audio file)

http://atlantaorthodoxchurches.org/stjohn/sounds/2009_DOS_Keynote.mp3

Romanian Episcopate

60th National A.R.O.Y. Conference to be held at St. Mary Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, September 4-6, 2009

http://conference.aroy.org/Conf09.htm


Orthodox News and Events in North America

Statement Issued by Metropolitan’s Office Regarding Placement of Antiochian Seminarians

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20271

Correspondence from His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20203

Announcement from the Synodal Liturgical Music Committee of the Russian Church Abroad

http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8ensynlitmusomm.html

A Pilgrimage From the Russian Church Abroad to the Holy Sites of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8endcukrainetrip09.html

The Russian Church Abroad’s Commission on Dialog With the Orthodox Church in America Meets For the First Time

http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2009/8enocacommissionmeeting.html

Serbian Orthodox Church 13th Annual Diocesan Days, September 4-6, 2009

http://www.spc.rs/eng/diocesan_days_september_46_2009

http://www.spc.rs/eng/western_american_diocese_soc_13th_annual_diocesan_days_gathering

The Church is One and Indivisible A Pastoral Reflection on the administrative re-unification of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America

http://www.spc.rs/eng/church_one_and_indivisible

International Orthodox Psychotherapy Conference in Chicago, June 2010

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20264

Orthodox Christian Laity Annual Meeting at Antiochian Village

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20142

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry Convocation Meets in Denver

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20262

FOCUS North America Extends Domestic Aid with Hundreds of Orthodox Youth Outreach Volunteers

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20233

OCAMPR Offers Pan-Orthodox Conference on Care for Severely Challenged Patients

https://www.goarch.org/news/ocampr2009conference


Orthodox World News

The Appeal by Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia on the First Anniversary of the Military Conflict in South Ossetia

http://www.patriarchate.ge/_en/?action=news_show&mode=news&id=95

His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, at the “East-West Dialogue Peace-building Seminar” in Jordan.

http://www.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/en/view.php?message_id=300

His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III Participates at the Assembly of the ‘Council of the Religious Institutions of the Holy Land’.

http://www.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/en/view.php?message_id=301

Metropolitan Elias Curban into his rest between God’s hands

http://antiochpat.org/english/news/news.php?newsid=119&PHPSESSID=bb94543ee41fab957b55888687b376d5

http://www.antiochian.org/node/20146