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Official Statements, Speeches, Addresses, and Sermons

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon

Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

April 30, 2013

The Resurrection of Christ 2013
April 16, 2013

Pastoral Letter Concerning the Boston Marathon Bombing
March 24, 2013

Sunday of Orthodoxy 2012
March 15, 2013

Great Lent 2013
January 17, 2013

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2013
December 18, 2012

Nativity of our Lord 2012
December 14, 2012

Metropolitan Tikhon calls for prayers in wake of Connecticut school shooting

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