On Friday, March 13, clergy and faithful from across the Eastern American Diocese came to bid farewell to the newly departed Archpriest George Johnson, who reposed in the Lord on Monday, March 9.

On Thursday, March 12, clergy and parishioners of St. Mary of Egypt Church in Roswell, GA, together with other Orthodox Christians from the area, bearing signs, flags, icons, and gonfalons, gathered in downtown Atlanta to participate in the Georgia March for Life.

On Wednesday, March 11, the Great Lenten Retreat for clergy of the southern deaneries of the Eastern American Diocese concluded with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in St. Mary of Egypt Church in Roswell (Atlanta), GA.

On Tuesday, March 10, clergy of the southern deaneries of the Eastern American Diocese gathered at St. Mary of Egypt Church in Roswell (Atlanta), GA for the start of the Southern Great Lenten Clergy Retreat.

On Monday, March 9, with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, the myrrh-streaming Hawaiian-Iveron Icon of the Mother of God visited the Hermitage of the Holy Protection in Buena, NJ. The visitation schedule was coordinated with the guardian of the holy icon, Priest Nectarios Yangson, and Protodeacon Dimitri Krenitsky.

On Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of March – the Second Sunday of Great Lent, that of the Holy Hierarch Gregory Palamas – Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York paid an archpastoral visit to Holy Myrrhbearers Church in Mt. Crawford, VA, where he officiated the divine services.

With the blessing of Their Eminences, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York, and Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco & Western America, the myrrh-streaming Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God is visiting churches along the East Coast

On Monday, March 9,  Archpriest George Johnson (rector of Holy Apostles Church in Beltsville, MD) reposed in the Lord. Additional biographical information will be posted as it is received.

On March 7-8, the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, His Grace Luke, Bishop of Syracuse, visited Sts. Theodore Church in Buffalo, NY. Traveling from Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, Bishop Luke came to lead the parish’s liturgical celebrations and spend time with the faithful of the community.

On Sunday, March 8, the high school students of Holy Epiphany Church in Roslindale (Boston), MA held a second bake sale at Roche Bros. Supermarket in West Roxbury, one mile from the church.