The conference speaker, Very Reverend Thomas Soroka, has led his parish of Saint Nicholas in McKees Rocks PA in a remarkable season of renewal over the past several years. Archbishop Michael has invited Father Thomas to share his story with us and...

[by Emily Tan, on "Culture Trip"]  After Henry Hudson sailed through the Newark Bay in 1609, trading colonies started to spring up in what we now know as New Jersey, making it one of the older states in America. As more people settled in the Garde...

As the Camp’s chapel bell rings, so will start the Annual Saint Andrew’s Camp Bike Ride (SACBR). The bike ride is a charity event in an effort to support the camp. Each year the Ride is held on the 4th Saturday in August.  This year the Ride will ...

[from Saint Tikhon's Seminary communications]  Deacon Samuel Davis, who enrolled in a one-year program of studies at Saint Tikhon's Theological Seminary this fall and decided to complete the whole degree program, was ordained to the Holy Priesthoo...

Clergy and faithful of the New York State Deanery gathered in celebration of Archbishop Michael's 8th Anniversary of Consecration to the Episopacy on 9 May 2018 at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Endicott NY. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was a ...

The Office of Pastoral Life of the OCA has special concern for the well-being of clergy and their families. The Office has already sponsored a ZOOM meeting for parish clergy to gather and share fellowship, ideas and concerns. On July 12, at the in...

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 marks the 28th anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter John Meyendorff, a leading 20th century Orthodox Christian theologian and Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary from 1984 until his retirement on ...

In a letter dated July 14, 2020,  His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon addressed a letter to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew concerning the recent development related to the Great Church of Hagia Sophia.

The text of the letter rea...

Each summer over a dozen summer camps are organized throughout the Orthodox Church in America by dioceses, deaneries and parishes. Due to the pandemic many of these camps are offering digital camping experiences to help keep our kids connected to ...

To the Honorable Clergy, Venerable Monastics, and Pious Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America,

My Beloved Brethren and Blessed Children in the Lord,

I wish you all a happy and safe 4th of July! As this Independence Day comes in the midst of...