On Sunday, January 11, the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, His Grace Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk was a guest at the Nativity Reception in the "Russian House" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Accompanying His Grace was the rector of St. Gregory Church in Tampa, Archpriest Andrey Kovalev and Abbot (Nicodemus) Balyasnikov, Secretary to His Grace. Vladika John met with the many members of club and thanked them for preserving the Russian culture here in the United States. His Grace also remembered the founder of the "Russian House", Peter Alekseyevich Dementev.