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Official Statements, Speeches, Addresses, and Sermons

A collection of official statements prepared and delivered by the Holy Synod of Bishops, current and past primates, hierarchs and clergy.

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon

Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

The Holy Synod of Bishops

The Supreme Canonical Authority in the Church

The Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky

Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations


Archive

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Theodosius

Former Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman

Former Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah

Former Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

His Eminence, Archbishop Leo

Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland

His Eminence, Metropolitan Maximos

Metropolitan of Aenos
Presiding Hierarch of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Greek Archdiocese of America

His Eminence, Archbishop Peter

Former Archbishop of New York and New Jersey

His Eminence, Archbishop Dmitri

Archbishop of Dallas and the South

Protopresbyter Robert S. Kondratick

The 10th All-American Council

The 12th All-American Council

The 16th All-American Council

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The Orthodox Church in America

The Mission of The Orthodox Church in America, the local autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church, is to be faithful in fulfilling the commandment of Christ to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”

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