Metropolitan Herman to preside at Nativity services in nation’s capital

WASHINGTON, DC [OCA Communications] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, will preside at services marking the Great Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord at Saint Nicholas Cathedral here December 23-25, 2006.

On Saturday, December 23, Metropolitan Herman will join the cathedral clergy at the celebration of the Vigil Service at 5:00 p.m.

On Sunday, December 24, he will preside at the 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy. During the Liturgy, he will ordain Subdeacon Sergius Miller to the diaconate and Reader Brian Patrick Mitchell to the subdiaconate. At 6:00 p.m., he will preside at the Vigil for the Great Feast of the Nativity.

On Monday, December 25, Metropolitan Herman will preside at the Nativity Divine Liturgy at 9:00 a.m.