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Official Statements, Speeches, Addresses, and Sermons

December 23, 2024

Nativity of our Lord 2024

November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving Day 2024

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 9, 2023

Statement on Israel and Palestine

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

Statement on same-sex relationships and sexual identity

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

Statement on Ukraine

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

Beginning of Great Lent 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

Pastoral letter concerning the Coronavirus

The Resurrection of Christ 2020

Directives for the Clergy and the Parish, Mission, and Monastic Communities during the Coronavirus Outbreak

Archpastoral letter concerning the Coronavirus Outbreak

Holy Synod issues further Statement on Coronavirus outbreak

Archpastoral Letter on the Coronavirus

Holy Synod issues Statement on Coronavirus outbreak

Beginning of Great Lent 2020

January 19, 2020

Sanctity of Life Sunday 2020

December 25, 2019

Nativity of our Lord 2019

November 13, 2019

Anniversary Celebrations for the Canonization of St. Herman of Alaska, and the Reception of the Tomos of Autocephaly

October 25, 2019

Steward Sunday 2019

August 29, 2019

The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year 2019

Holy Synod reaffirms statement regarding External Affairs in Ukraine

The Resurrection of Christ 2019

January 28, 2019

Archpastoral Letter on Ukraine

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

October 24, 2018

Social Media Guidelines for Clergy and Lay Leaders of the Orthodox Church in America

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

Prayerful Reflection, National Council of Churches, A.C.T. Rally

February 15, 2018

Liturgical Instruction of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America

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

August 16, 2017

Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement on recent tragic events in Charlottesville, VA

Remembering the 75th Anniversary of the Internment of the Aleut Natives of the Aleutian Islands

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

Statement of the Holy Synod of the OCA on Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs Regarding Marriage

Archpastoral Letter, Public Statement on the Orlando shootings

Holy Synod issues Statement, Petitions on the Holy and Great Council

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

October 27, 2015

Resolution of the Holy Synod on Canonical Procedures for Church Courts

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