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CHICAGO, IL [MW Communications] – The Diocese of the Midwest’ Parish Health Ministry leader Joseph Kormos announced today an initial schedule for a series of “webinars” (web based training and information seminars). The first webinar, titled “The Psychology of Leadership”  will be held Tuesday March 17 and feature Fr Gregory Jense as the presenter. More […]

The March issues of the parish pulse newsletter is available. for download here.

“SOS!”  September is “Support Our Seminarians” Month! 58th Diocesan Assembly to convene October 7-8, 2019 Pilgrimage to Holy Land announced for 2020 In Memoriam:  Archpriest John Matusiak Midwest Diocese to sponsor Pilgrimage to Alaska August 19-25, 2020 Chicago Orthodox Synergy announces 25th Annual Symposium Chicago site of OCAMPR 2019 Conference Vacancy at Saint Stephen the

Burr Ridge, IL (MW Communications) – The official minutes of the 47th Dioceasan Assembly, held here October 6 & 7, 2009 are now available here.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MW Communications) – On Tuesday, January 27, 2009 during the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Eminence, Patriarchal Locum Tenens and Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad KYRILL was elected the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The Enthronement of His Holiness, Patriarch KYRILL of Moscow and All Russia will take

CHICAGO, IL [MW Communications] – Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral has launched of a new web site, www.friendsofholytrinity.com, to support the parish’s multi-year restoration efforts. Holy Trinity, located at 1121 N. Leavitt St., is the last remaining of two Sullivan-designed churches in the Chicago area. Unlike the parish’s main web site, www.holytrinitycathedral.net, the goal of this new site

CHICAGO, IL (MW Communications) – Parish Health Facilitator Joseph Kormos, with the blessing of His Eminence, Archbishop JOB, today announced a new grant program under the Parish Health Program of the Diocese of the Midwest. The new program will provide stimulus to parishes to begin new ministries or further develop existing parish ministries. Through modest

WHEATON, IL (MW Communications) – On Sunday, December 28, 2008, the parish feastday of St. Joseph Church here, Church school students raffled a gingerbread replica of their parish church and three rectories in their efforts to raise funds to further the growth of the newly planted St. Makarius the Great Mission community on the campus

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (MW Communications) – On a snowy St Nicholas Day, the annual St Mary’s Cathedral Advent Retreat brought together over 50 people for a series of talks by Fr Thomas Soroka, pastor of St Nicholas Church in McKees Rocks, PA. Following Matins, Divine Liturgy, and an enhanced coffee hour, Fr Thomas gave an inspiring

CANTON, OH (MW Communications) – On Friday November 21-Saturday November 22, 2008, Holy Assumption Orthodox Church (OCA), hosted 50 participants for a “Called & Gifted” Workshop here. The workshop was presented by Sherry Anne Weddell, the co-director of the Catherine of Siena Institute in Colorado Springs, CO and Fr Gregory Jensen, the priest-in-charge at Holy