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August 27, 2009
Nashville, TN: Bishop George visits with the faithful of Nashville

On Tuesday, August 11, Bishop George visited the Russian community in Nashville, accompanied by the diocesan council’s Southern liaison, Priest John Moses. The purpose of the visit was to meet with the faithful and discuss plans for opening a new ROCOR parish in Nashville. Vladika and Fr. John offered words of encouragement and assured the faithful that they would have the full support of the diocese. Vladika reminded the group that Orthodoxy was a “whole way of life,” and that opening a new parish will require hard work, patience, and personal sacrifice.

Priest Seraphim Scheidler, who has been given the oversight of the group, concurred with the sentiments already expressed and also spoke words of encouragement while stressing that the intention is to offer to Nashville a Russian Orthodox community reflecting Russian spirituality, with its Divine Services and contributing an Eastern Slavic tradition to the already established buoyant Orthodox communities, Greek, Antiochian, Romanian and Serbian. The next meeting of the parish is scheduled for the end of September.

     

     

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