Holy Trinity Cathedral, San Francisco, California August 16, 2025 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Today, we continue to celebrate the great feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. As Christians, we understand that death, the last enemy, has already been defeated by Christ on the Cross. Therefore, we know that death is no longer our final end, a consignment to the darkness of Sheol. Instead, death is now a falling asleep: just as Christ fell asleep o...| www.oca.org
Holy Trinity Cathedral, San Francisco, California August 16, 2025 Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose image we honor today, has gathered us together to participate in this glorious liturgy and in the sacred office for the ordination to the holy episcopacy of His Grace Bishop Vasily. Before I address the newly-ordained, I welcome his co-consecrators and those who are now his brother bishops on the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America:His Eminence Archbishop Melchisedek of Pittsburg...| www.oca.org
His Grace Bishop Vasily was born to a Russian family in Riga, Latvia, and relocated to the United States in 1999 after completing his undergraduate studies. He entered Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) in Yonkers, NY with the blessing of late Archbishop Dmitri (Royster) of Dallas. After finishing seminary, he enrolled in a doctoral program in Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where in 2012 he defended his dissertation on the history and origins of the ...| www.oca.org
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, is the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. Born in 1966, he is the eldest of three children born to Francois and Elizabeth Mollard. He spent his childhood living in various places including Connecticut, France, and Missouri, before settling in Reading, PA, where he graduated from Wyomissing High School in 1984. He moved to Chicago in 1988 after completing his undergraduate studies at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, ...| www.oca.org
