Today's feasts
June 9: Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria; Pelagia and the three Virgin Martyrs of Chios; Saint Cyril, Abbot of White Lake (Byelozersk); Venerable Columba of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland; Saint Alexander, Abbot of Kushta (Vologda); five nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thekla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Enmatha; Righteous Cyril of Velsk or Vazhesk (Vologda); Hieromartyr Alexander of Prussa; Martyr Ananias; Saint Cyril, monk; Saint Baithene, Abbot of Iona; Saint John Shavteli of Salosi, Georgia (see also April 1); Martyrs Priscos and Felician of Nomentum; repose of Hieromonk Vitaly of Valaam; Saint Alexey Mechev of Moscow
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The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."
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