OCA Chancellor, Assistant Attend Banquet During ROCOR Clergy Conference
NEW YORK, NY [OCA Communications] -- At the
invitation of the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of
Russia [ROCOR], His Eminence, Metropolitan Laurus, Protopresbyter Robert S.
Kondratick, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, and the Very Rev.
Leonid Kishkovsky, Assistant to the Chancellor for External Affairs and
Interchurch Relations, attended a festive banquet here on December 10, 2003.
The banquet was held in celebration of the Feast of the Kursk-Root
Icon of Our Lady of the Sign and the 100th anniversary of the glorification of
Saint Seraphim of Sarov. The banquet also marked the mid-point of the
All-Diaspora Pastoral Conference of ROCOR clergy at the Church of the Protection
of the Most Holy Theotokos, Nyack, NY, at which nearly 150 ROCOR clergy,
together with hierarchs from North America and abroad, gathered to consider
relations between ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate.
Among the guests at the banquet were three priests of the Moscow Patriarchate
who have come to the United States to address the clergy convocation -
Archimandrite Tikhon [Shevkunov], Abbot of Moscow's Sretensky Monastery; the
Very Rev. Maxim Kozlov, Moscow Theological Academy; and the Very Rev. Georgy
Mitrofanov, St. Petersburg Theological Academy. The Rev. Alexander Abramov, a
cleric of the Moscow Patriarchate's Representation Cathedral of Saint Nicholas
in New York City, also was among the invited guests.
The Pastoral Conference will be followed by a meeting of the Bishops' Council of
the ROCOR. As has been widely reported, it is anticipated that Metropolitan
Laurus will visit Moscow early in 2004 at the invitation of His Holiness,
Patriarch Alexy.
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