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Official Statements, Speeches, Addresses, and Sermons

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon

Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

November 17, 2024

Steward Sunday 2024

October 6, 2024

Church Musician Sunday - 2024

August 31, 2024

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2024

August 18, 2024

Call for Reflections in Preparation for 21st All-American Council

The Resurrection of Christ 2024

Beginning of Great Lent 2024

January 21, 2024

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2024

December 25, 2023

Nativity of our Lord 2023

November 5, 2023

Steward Sunday 2023

The Resurrection of Christ 2023

Statement on the Kyiv Caves Lavra

February 27, 2023

Beginning of Great Lent 2023

January 22, 2023

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2023

December 25, 2022

Nativity of our Lord 2022

December 19, 2022

Statement on Peace

November 24, 2022

Thanksgiving Day 2022

November 20, 2022

Steward Sunday 2022

September 26, 2022

Inaugural “Church Musician Sunday”

September 1, 2022

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2022

Address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon at the Twentieth All-American Council

Statement on the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Sunday of All Saints - 2022

Statement on the tragic school shooting in Texas

The Resurrection of Christ 2022

Annunciation 2022

Beginning of Great Lent 2022

February 24, 2022

Statement on war in Ukraine

January 16, 2022

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2022

December 25, 2021

Nativity of our Lord 2021

November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving Day 2021

November 14, 2021

Steward Sunday 2021

November 11, 2021

Veterans Day (Remembrance Day), 2021

September 11, 2021

Remembering 9/11: Twenty Years Later

September 1, 2021

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2021

The Resurrection of Christ 2021

January 24, 2021

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2021

December 25, 2020

Nativity of our Lord 2020

September 1, 2020

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2020

The Resurrection of Christ 2020

Archpastoral Letter on the Coronavirus

Beginning of Great Lent 2020

January 19, 2020

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2020

December 25, 2019

Nativity of our Lord 2019

October 25, 2019

Steward Sunday 2019

August 29, 2019

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2019

The Resurrection of Christ 2019

January 20, 2019

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2019

December 25, 2018

Nativity of our Lord 2018

October 30, 2018

Archpastoral Letter in response to Pittsburgh synagogue tragedy

October 28, 2018

Steward Sunday 2018

September 26, 2018

Archpastoral Letter in Reference to Recent Developments Regarding the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Address of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon at the Nineteenth All-American Council

Of What Life Do We Speak? Four Pillars for the Fulfillment of the Apostolic Work of the Church

Address: Pan-Orthodox Symposium of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music

The Resurrection of Christ 2018

January 21, 2018

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2018

December 25, 2017

Nativity of our Lord 2017

September 24, 2017

Homily on the Feast of the Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska

September 11, 2017

Statement on the 16th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks

September 1, 2017

Statement on the Day of Prayer for Creation, Hurricane Harvey

The Resurrection of Christ 2017

Sunday of Orthodoxy 2017

February 27, 2017

Great Lent 2017

January 22, 2017

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2017

December 28, 2016

Letter of Metropolitan Tikhon to the Stewards of the OCA

December 19, 2016

Nativity of our Lord 2016

November 11, 2016

In Remembrance of Our Veterans

Stewards of the OCA: 2016 Saint Herman Appeal

Archpastoral Letter, Public Statement on the Orlando shootings

The Resurrection of Christ 2016

Concerning the Election of Bishop Alexander as Bishop of Dallas and the South

Statement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, on his trip to Constantinople

Great Lent 2016

Cooperation Agreement—the Orthodox Church in America and the Orthodox Church of Finland

February 15, 2016

Pastoral Letter on meeting of Patriarch, Pope

December 25, 2015

Nativity of our Lord 2015

August 28, 2015

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year & The Day of Prayer for the Creation

Address to the 18th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church

Statement concerning June 26 US Supreme Court decision

Homily at 111th Annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage to Saint Tikhon’s Monastery

The Resurrection of Christ 2015

January 16, 2015

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2015

December 18, 2014

Nativity of our Lord 2014

August 10, 2014

Pastoral Letter Concerning Violence and Extremism in the Middle East

The Resurrection of Christ 2014

The Barren Fig Tree

Great Lent 2014

January 19, 2014

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2014

December 18, 2013

Nativity of our Lord 2013

December 13, 2013

Call for Prayers in the Wake of World Events

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving Day 2013

The Resurrection of Christ 2013

Pastoral Letter Concerning the Boston Marathon Bombing

Sunday of Orthodoxy 2012

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