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