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February 11, 2010
New York: The Honorable Head of St. John Chrysostom is Brought to the Synodal Cathedral

 

On February 6, 2010, during the All-Night Vigil in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, co-served by a multitude of archpastors and clergy triumphantly greeted the honorable head of the Ecumenical Orthodox teacher and hierarch, St. John Chrysostom.

 

Pilgrims from American parishes of every Orthodox jurisdiction came to venerate the holy head, which was brought to New York from Moscow with the blessing of His Holiness, Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia. The honorable head of St. John Chrysostom will remain in the Synodal Cathedral of the Russian Church Abroad until February 11th; after the Divine Liturgy that day, the relic will be triumphantly transfered to New York's St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral. On February 12th, the reliquary with the head of the holy hierarch will depart for Moscow.

 

During their visit to America, members of the delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church accompanying the icon performed a pilgrimage to the spiritual center of the Russian Diaspora, Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. While visiting the monastery, they served a panihida for reposed First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Metropolitan Laurus of blessed memory. A choir of Jordanville seminarians sang the requiem service. After a tour of Holy Trinity Monastery, a brotherly discussion was held between the guests from Moscow and the monastery's abbot, Archimandrite Luke.

 

On Tuesday, February 9, the feast of St. John Chrysostom and on the eve of the gathering of the ROCOR Synod, members of the Moscow delegation co-served the Divine Liturgy with First Hierarch of the Church Abroad in the Cathedral of the Sign in New York.

 

Communication Service of the Department for External Church Relations MP