His Grace Bishop Atanasie of Bogdania, vicar of the Romanian Diocese of Italy, celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the community, named in honor of the Myrrh-bearing Women, on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women in Aylesbury, near Oxford.
Fr. Chad served 17 years at the seminary, first as chancellor, then as president.
Two more Romanian Athonite monks have been proposed for canonization.
A Russian-style church on the island of Cyprus, built to serve the needs of Russian-speaking immigrants, was consecrated over the weekend, followed by the Divine Liturgy concelebrated by bishops from Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Russia.
Protopresbyter Joseph Dzagoev
We have every reason to call both Solovki and Magadan and their surrounding territories an enormous Russian antimension spread under the open sky.