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The Russian Church in Hawaii
====The Russian Church in Hawaii====
In the late 1960s, a group of Russian Orthodox faithful joined the Russian Orthodox Church of Hawaii and formed the St. [[Mark of Ephesus]] Russian Orthodox Mission Parishunder the auspices of [[ROCOR]]. In the early 1980's, this mission parish was later re-[[consecrate|consecrated]] under the heavenly protection of the [[Mother of God]] and is now known as the Holy [[Theotokos]] of [[Iveron]] Russian Orthodox Church. In the late 1990s, the current pastor of the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox]] community, Father Anatole Lyovin was [[ordination|ordained]] to serve the Orthodox faithful in Hawaii. Currently there are plans to build the first [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox]] [[church]] in Honolulu.
Fr. Anatole also oversees the Russian Orthodox mission communities on Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii.
The Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii is These communities are under the spiritual care of Archbishop [[Kyrill (Dmitrieff)|+KYRILL of San Francisco]], the current successor of [[Tikhon (Troitsky) of San Francisco|Archbishop +TIKHON of San Francisco]] ''of blessed memory.'' Archbishop +TIKHON was Archbishop of San Francisco when Fr. Innokenty Dronov oversaw the Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii in the 1940s.
====The Greek Church in Hawaii====
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