January 17, 2013
New York City: Bishop Jerome led the Nativity Services in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign

On Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th of January, divine services for the feast of the Nativity were held in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City. In the absence of the cathedral’s rector, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, currently paying an Archpastoral visit to Australia, the feast was led by His Grace, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Jerome of Manhattan. His Grace was co-served by the cathedral senior priest, Archpriest Andrei Sommer, Hieromonk Nicholas (Perekrestov; cathedral cleric), Guardian of the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God Priest Nicholas Olhovsky, and cathedral clergy. To the joy of the clergy and worshippers, this year the Nativity services were performed under the aegis of the Protectress of the Russian Diaspora, which occupied her usual location on the left side of the cathedral, where a copy of the Icon is usually placed during its travels.

On January 7, upon completion of the Liturgy, the clergy and multitudinous parishioners gathered for a banquet organized by the cathedral sisterhood, during which the Polychronion was intoned for all those who served and prayed, and many warm words and well-wishes were expressed on the occasion of the radiant feast of Christ’s Nativity.

Photos by: www.nycathedralofsign.org

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese