To encourage growth in the Orthodox Christian traditions of hymnody, Orthodox Christians aged 21 and below are invited to submit translations into English of previously untranslated short liturgical texts (the equivalent of a kontakion and ikos, up to ca. 250 words) from Church Slavonic. Applications must include:

With the blessing of His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America &New York, the special service commemorating the Millennium of the Baptism of Holy Rus’ has been translated into English and is now available for download here.

The Eastern American Diocesan website is now offering for download cue cards for clergy for the Vespers of Holy Pentecost, including the Kneeling Prayers in English, Russian, and Slavonic, special petitions on the litanies, and the dismissal.

The Stallman-Pacitti Translation Award was established by the Committee of the Conference on Translation and Hymnography to honor the memory and scholarly translation activity of Helen Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti...

The Synodal School of Liturgical Music has now opened general registration for the 2021 summer session at Holy Dormition Convent "Novo-Diveevo" in Nanuet, NY, running from July 18 through July 31.

We hereby inform the rectors of all parishes and missions and abbots of monasteries in the Eastern American Diocese that, in accordance with the resolution of the hierarchy, on Great & Holy Saturday, May 1, the Russian Orthodox Church will take part in the annual Pan-Orthodox prayer for peace in the Holy Land.

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

We are pleased to inform you that our St. Joseph of Optina Parish in Virginia Beach, Virginia has acquired 29 acres of land in the suburbs to construct a church.

Deacon Lev Opie, cleric of St. Nicholas Church in Palm Coast, FL is currently in the hospital for a serious medical condition regarding his heart.

The age-old tradition of making Church-wide collections on Palm Sunday to benefit the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem is particularly important in 2021, in light of the difficulties faced due to the COVID-19 virus.

Holy Trinity Publications is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication of the first detailed examination in English of the challenges to Orthodox ecclesiology that have arisen following the intervention of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the affairs of the Ukrainian Church in 2018.

With the blessing of His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and in honor of the centenary of its establishment, Centenary Publications, the publishing imprint of the Synodal Centenary Committee, is publishing "Grains of Wisdom & Piety from the Reposed Archpastors of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad."

The fourth issue of Holy Trinity Monastery’s Russian-language journal Pravoslavnaia Rus’ for 2020 may be downloaded as a free PDF directly from the publisher’s website.

In September 2020, we published the first issue of the new journal "The Parishioner." In January 2021, the second issue was released. The next one is scheduled to be out by Pascha of this year. "The Parishioner" is available both in printed and electronic forms.

On Monday, February 8, Holy Apostles Church in Beltsville, MD is premiering a 10-minute parish fundraising video to help build a new parish hall. Please share this video with your friends and family! With your help, the parish hopes to raise $500,000.

St. John of Shanghai & San Francisco Mission Parish in Lewisburg, PA was established in 2015 with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, originally as Holy Protection Mission Parish. It since has acquired four acres of rural land

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.