On Wednesday, November 15, the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, His Grace Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk chaired a session of the Bishop's Council in the parish hall of St. John the Baptist Church in Little Falls, NJ.

Council members deliberated on a number of matters concerning parish life. The council also approved the organizing committee tasked with planning the Convocation of Clergy and Laity of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA slated to be in held in September 2018 at the Antiochian Village in Pennsylvania.