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Today's feasts

June 27:

Our Lord Jesus Christ

Saint Joanna the Myrrh-bearer; Saint Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople; Saint Severus, presbyter of Interocrea in Italy; Martyr Anectus of Caesarea in Cappadocia; Blessed Martin of Turov; New-Martyr priest Gregory Nikolsky; Saint Luke the hermit; Martyrs Mark and Marcia; Hieromartyr Pierius, presbyter of Antioch; Venerable George of Iberia and Mount Athos, Georgian; Venerable Serapion of Kozha Lake (see also June 26); New Hieromartyr Kirion of Georgia; finding of the relics of the Venerable Saint Ambrose of Optina



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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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