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November 15, 2010
New
York City: Metropolitan Hilarion presided over a regular meeting of
the Diocesan Council
On Tuesday, November 2, a regular meeting
of the Diocesan Council of the Eastern American Diocese was held in
the Synodal Administrative Center in New York City, presided over by
His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York.
Also present at the meeting were the diocesan vicars, Their Graces,
Bishops George of Mayfield and Jerome of Manhattan, as well as
diocesan secretary Archpriest Serge Lukianov, Archpriest Seraphim Gan,
Archpriest John Moses, Priest Jonah Campbell, Subdeacon George
Schatiloff, G.N. Nikolsky, and S.R. Lopoukhine. Council members heard
the following reports and adopted the following resolutions:
1) A
report by Metropolitan Hilarion on the current state of the diocese,
informing the Council of recent ordinations and the opening of new
mission parishes. His Eminence informed the Council that he has given
his blessing for the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God to travel
throughout the Eastern American Diocese from December 11, 2010 to
February 27, 2011. Diocesan secretary Archpriest Serge Lukianov is
assigned to oversee the icon’s visitation. The diocesan media office
will travel with the icon to offer media coverage of all the visits on
the diocesan website.
2) A
written report by Mr. George Temidis, Chairman of the Health Insurance
and Pension Investigative Commission, on the results of the
commission’s work. The commission made arrangements for the Eastern
American, Mid-American, and Western American dioceses to be accepted
into the Orthodox Health Plan. Details on enrollment will be published
on the diocesan website shortly.
3) A
report by Archpriest John Moses on the recently completed Volunteers
in Mission (VIM) project in Chattanooga, TN. A team led by Fr. John
constructed a new iconostasis and altar for the Protection of the
Mother of God Mission. Fr. John proposed an expansion of the program,
to which the Council voiced its enthusiastic support. A new section of
the diocesan website will be dedicated to VIM.
4) A
proposal by Archpriest John Moses to create a resource program for the
diocese, which was approved by the Council. A new committee will be
formed to manage the diocesan Pastoral Resources Program (PRP) which
will organize catechumen weekends, prayer retreats, altar server
seminars, seminars for potential ordination candidates, marriage
enrichment retreats, crisis intervention seminars, liturgical practice
seminars, and more.
5) The Council resolved to
create three new diocesan medals:
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The Medal of St. Philaret
the Merciful (in memory of Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky))
will be awarded for benevolence.
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The Medal of Archbishop
Vitaly (Maximenko) will be awarded for exceptional missionary
work.
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The Medal of Archbishop
Nikon (Rklitsky) will be awarded for exceptional pastoral work.
The
diocesan secretary is charged with preparing a protocol for the
diocesan medals to be presented at the next Council meeting.
6) A
financial report presented by diocesan treasurer Priest Jonah
Campbell. With Metropolitan Hilarion’s blessing, the Council
resolved to audit all parishes that have not made any payments in
2010.
8) Written
progress reports submitted by the diocesan media office for the months
of September and October.
9)
Archpriest Serafim Gan requested that he be released from the Council
for personal reasons. Council members thanked Fr. Serafim for his
dedicated and selfless service to the diocese. With Metropolitan
Hilarion’s blessing, the Council resolved to appoint Mr. George
Temidis to replace Fr. Serafim until the end of his term in 2012.
After the meeting, His Eminence called and personally notified Mr.
Temidis of his appointment.
The next
meeting of the Diocesan council will be held at the end of February.
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