Hieromonk Tryphon Lectures At Clergy Conference
Hieromonk Tryphon, superior of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery, addressed the clergy of the Diocese of San Francisco and Western America with a lecture entitled, “Fasting According to the Fathers”.
His lecture, presented on the first day of the annual Great Lenten Pastoral Conference (March 17 - 20), held at Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco, addressed the central nature of fasting in the life of the Christian.
MEMORY ETERNAL TO OUR BELOVED ARCHPASTOR!
His Eminence, Metropolitan Laurua reposed in the Lord on March 16, 2008, The Sunday of Orthodoxy.
May his memory be eternal!
Metropolitan KALLISTOS Lectures Locally
The whole of the Orthodox community of the Puget Sound region was blessed with the arrival of His Eminence, The Most Reverend Metropolitan KALLISTOS of Diokleia, the beloved author of “The Orthodox Church” and the “The Orthodox Way”, and one of the world’s foremost Orthodox Christian authors, teachers, and scholars. Vladyka Kallistos was in the region to deliver major addresses at both Pacific Lutheran University and Seattle Pacific University. His Eminence, who for 35 years was the Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford University, addressed both universities with a lecture entitled: “Salvation in Christ: the Orthodox Approach”.
On Wednesday, March 5th, His Eminence, as per his own request, was brought to Seattle’s St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (ROCOR) in order to venerate the room wherein reposed the holy archbishop, St. John the Wonderworker, a bishop who was directly involved in the conversion of Metropolitan Kallistos so very many years ago. The Metropolitan was greeted by the cathedral’s dean, Archpriest Alex Kotar, and Hieromonk Tryphon, superior of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery. A wonderful luncheon was served in the cathedral’s rectory by Matuska Natalia Kotar, following.



