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*At some point, Fr Lazar was called upon to help found [[St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Seminary (Libertyville, Illinois)|St Sava Serbian Orthodox Seminary]] for the New Gracanica Metropolitanate. Metr. Ireney ordains Monk Varlaam to the [[priest]]hood to serve the parish. Fr Lazar stays there for three years.

*1984: The feast of the ''Theotokos, Joy of Canada'' was established when Metr. Ireney of New Gracanica presented the Monastery with a small [[icon]] of the [[Theotokos]] as a blessing.

*1985: The parish of St Nicholas, Langley, British Columbia, appealed to the monastery for help and for a priest, and so became the second English-language Orthodox parish in Western Canada.

*Because of the unavailability of locally obtainable pure beeswax candles, Fr Varlaam built a small candle factory to produce hand-dipped, pure beeswax candles in the parishes and the monastery.