His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada on his namesday. The message reads as follows:

On Saturday, September 25, clergy and faithful of Greater Baltimore gathered in Holy Trinity Church to bid farewell to longtime cleric, Deacon Michael Bishop.

On Monday, September 27, the feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Cross, Archpriest Alexander Rentel, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, concelebrated the festal Divine Liturgy at Saint Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City

On Saturday, 25 September, the Apodosis of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the clergy of the Central States Deanery gathered for a celebration of the Divine Liturgy and a Deanery meeting.

*UPDATED* On Sunday, September 19, the feast of the Miracle of Archangel Michael at Colossae (Chonae), Deacon Michael Bishop, cleric of Holy Trinity Church in Baltimore, MD suddenly reposed in the Lord. 

On Saturday, August 21, the end of a major capital renovation project at St. Andrew Naval Cathedral in Philadelphia, PA took place.

On Friday evening, August 20, the newly formed youth chamber choir "Osanna" held its debut concert in St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City.