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August 2, 2011
Howell, NJ: An Announcement from the Diocesan Office on the 75th anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky)

Reverend Fathers, dear in the Lord brothers and sisters!

Wednesday, August 10 of this year, the feast of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, will mark the 75th anniversary of the repose of His Beatitude, the ever-memorable Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky), the first in the line of First Hierarchs of the Russian Church Abroad.

I hereby recommend that, in all churches of the Eastern American Diocese, the memory of Metropolitan Antony be honored by special prayerful commemoration on that day during the Great Entrance of the Divine Liturgy and on a Litany for the Departed after it, prefaced by an instruction on the day’s significance. In churches where the Liturgy will not be served on August 10, the commemoration should take place on Sunday, August 7.

Let us pray for the repose of the soul of the ever-memorable Metropolitan Antony with love and gratitude for his long-suffering service to our Church Abroad in the very hardest years of the 20th century.

May the Lord grant rest to the soul of the ever-memorable Metropolitan Antony!

+HILARION
Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese