Nun Maria (Valle) heads ROCOR’s School for Girls in Bethany, which has been in operation since 1937. This November, she will be visiting the Mid-American and Eastern American Dioceses to speak about the work of the school and the challenges they are facing today, as well as the situation faced by all Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land. All are encouraged to attend!

The next session of the Spiritual Court of the Eastern American Diocese is scheduled for Monday ‒ October 27, 2025.

The 32nd Annual ROCM Conference begins in less than one month. On October 8-12, a marvelous choir will gather – nearly 100 voices strong! Those registered will be receiving e-mails soon with details about arrival, schedule, materials, and music to review in advance.

With the blessing of Their Eminences Nicholas, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, and Gabriel, Archbishop of Montreal & Canada, the 2025 St. Herman Youth Conference will be held at Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Albany, NY.

From Saturday, August 30, through Monday, September 1, Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY will host its annual Labor Day Weekend pilgrimage.

In just about 10 weeks, singers from around the world will begin gathering in New Jersey for the 32nd ROCM Church Musicians’ Conference. We hope you’re one of them! If not – please don’t procrastinate and do sign up today.

In late August, with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, Protodeacon Andrei Psarev (cleric of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY) will perform a lecture tour in the American South.

Since the founding of the Eastern American Diocese in 1938, the annual St. Vladimir’s Day Celebrations have been an event around which the entire Russian Diaspora in the Eastern United States has united in the thousands and even tens of thousands.

Organizers of the 32nd Annual Russian Orthodox Church Musicians’ (ROCM) Conference are urging colleagues to take full advantage of deeply discounted conference registration fees during the month of May

With the blessing of His Eminence Nicholas, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, the inaugural Christ the Savior Music Symposium will be held from June 11-14 at Christ the Savior Church in Wayne, WV.

The Diocesan Media Office will publish photo-reports of Holy Week & the Feast of feasts – the Lord’s Pascha in the parishes and monasteries of the Eastern American Diocese on the diocesan website. 

Online registration for the 2025 Lenten Retreat for clergy of the Eastern American Diocese has opened on the diocesan website. 

The Eastern American Diocesan website is now offering for download the Old Testament Lectionary for Sixth Hour and Vespers on weekdays and feasts during Great Lent, as well as cue cards for clergy, specifically the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, and the verses on the Hours. Everything is available in English and Church Slavonic.

A youth symposium, titled "Orthodox Identity in America," will take place from May 30-June 1 at St. Mary of Egypt Church in Atlanta, Georgia. 

The Synodal School of Liturgical Music has now opened general registration for the 2025 summer session at Holy Dormition Convent "Novo-Diveevo" in Nanuet, NY, running from July 13-26.

From February 28-March 1, instructors affiliated with the Synodal School of Liturgical Music will lead the workshop "Let My Prayer Arise: Orthodox Chant in ROCOR Tradition," at the Paideia Classical Academy in Coconut Creek, FL.

With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, the myrrh-streaming Hawaiian-Iveron Icon of the Mother of God is currently traveling to the churches and monasteries of the Eastern American Diocese.

The Diocesan Media Office will publish photo-reports of the Nativity of our Lord in the parishes and monasteries of the Eastern American Diocese on the diocesan website.