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Today's feasts

June 30:

Synaxis of the Holy Apostles

Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew the Evangelist, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon Zelotes, and Matthias; leavetaking of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul; Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk; New-Martyr Michael of Athens; Saint Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk; Martyr Meleton; Martyr Peter of Synope; Saint Peter, Prince of Ordinsk, Rostov (see also June 29); translation of the relics of Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (see March 30). Other events: Repose of Bp. Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians



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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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