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Diocesan Clergy Convocation attracts largest attendance ever! DARIEN, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — Over 80 priests and deacons from throughout the Diocese of the Midwest gathered at Aylesford Carmelite Retreat Center here Monday through Wednesday, May 7 – 9, 2012, for their annual Clergy Convocation. The gathering — which boasted the largest attendance in the Diocese’s history […]

ROSSFORD, OH [OCA.org]:  Archimandrite Alexander [Golitzin] was consecrated Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese during a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy here at Saint George Orthodox Cathedral on Saturday, May 5, 2012. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, presided at the consecration Divine Liturgy. Concelebrating were His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel; His Grace, Bishop Nikon; His Grace, Bishop Tikhon;

Registration now open for Chicago Deanery summer camp July 4-7 EAST TROY, WI [MW Diocese Communications] — Registration for the Chicago Deanery’s annual summer camp, to be held at Edwards YMCA Camp here July 4-7, 2012, is now open.  For a camp flyer, click here. The camp is open to all middle, junior, and senior high school

TOLEDO, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — His Grace, Bishop Matthias, will be among the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops who will concelebrate with His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah at the consecration of Archimandrite Alexander [Golitzin] to the episcopacy at Saint George Cathedral here Saturday, May 5, 2012. On October 4, 2011, the members of

WHEATON, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — Over 35 alumni, friends, and prospective seminarians gathered at Saint Joseph Church here April 20, 2012, for a Bright Friday dinner sponsored by the the Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary Alumni Association. Alumni present represented 12 different graduating classes spanning the late 1960s to the present. Archpriest Alexander Rentel,

Chicago area choirs to present concert of Paschal music May 20BURR RIDGE, IL [MW Diocese Communications] — A concert of liturgical music, “The Music of Pascha of the Orthodox Church,” will be presented at Saints Peter and Paul Church, 6980 County Line Rd., Burr Ridge, IL on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.  The

May 20 Detroit dinner-dance to benefit retired clergy, widows DETROIT, MI [COCC] — The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit [COCC] will sponsor its annual “Spring Fling” dinner-dance to benefit retired Orthodox priests and priests’ widows on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at the banquet center of the Antiochian Orthodox Basilica of Saint Mary,

OBERLIN, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — Jim Forest, author of “Praying with Icons” and numerous other widely read Orthodox Christian books, will be the guest of the Oberlin College Orthodox Christian Fellowship and Saints Peter and Paul Church, Lorain, OH, Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, 2012. On Friday, May 4, Forest will deliver a lecture

CLEVELAND, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — “The Angel Cried,” a concert of the hymns of Pascha, will be presented at Saint Theodosius Cathedral, 733 Starkweather Ave., Cleveland, OH on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.  Printable flyer here. Featured will be the Greater Cleveland Russian Chorus, the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Choir, and Saint

CHICAGO, IL [Holy Trinity Cathedral] — A launch party to introduce the children’s book, “Josiah and Julia Go to Church; A Young Child’s Guide to Church Etiquettte,” will be held at Holy Trinity Cathedral’s social hall at 1121 N. Leavitt Street, Chicago, on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. The book, written by parishioner