Browsing: Enlightener of North America

Source: Orthodox Church in America SPRINGFIELD, VA [OCA] To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, beloved children in the Lord, This year, the Orthodox Church in America marks the 100th anniversary of the repose of Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America. It is now a full century since this great missionary and churchman fell asleep in the Lord on the feast of the Annunciation (March 25/April 7, 1925), dying as a confessor for the faith under the Soviet yoke. In celebration of this centennial, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in…