March 8, 2013
Puerto Rico: San Juan Climacos Mission will hold an Icon Exhibit

San Juan Climacos Mission San German, Puerto Rico, is intending to hold a series of events in 2013, intended to showcase Holy Orthodoxy. The principal event will be the visit to the Mission by the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion. Following this, the Mission will hold an icon exhibit and lecture series about Orthodox iconography.

The main goal of these events is to unite the local Orthodox communities.

The exhibit will be run by the Mission’s rector, Priest Gregorio Justiniano, and will primarily future the work of his son, Hieromonk Silouan – iconographer and clergy of Holy Cross Brotherhood in East Setauket, NY.

San Juan Climacos Mission works mostly with converts from among the local population. Fr. Gregorio noted that the organizers hope the exhibit will be a success, serving to familiar the locals more officially with Orthodoxy. "There seems to be quite a few of inquirers of Orthodoxy, but they haven’t been fully exposed yet. The people here need to realize that we are not just another mission or another isolated religious group, amongst many in Puerto Rico. We are connected with the Mother Church and, without Her, we will not be able to be nurtured."

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese