MINNEAPOLIS, MN [MW Communications] - On Sunday, January 10, Reader Gregory Krutchek was ordained to the Holy Diaconate at St Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Tikhon of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania at the request of Metropolitan Jonah, locum tenens of the Diocese of the Midwest. The ordination of Deacon Gregory, a St Tikhon's Seminary graduate and son of Archpriest Gregory and Marie Krutchek, had been blessed and scheduled by Archbishop Job.