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Nicholas Olhovsky was born on December 17, 1974 in Trenton, New Jersey to Soviet refugees Alexander Nikolaevich and Evdokia Grigorievna (née Rusinovich) Olhovsky fleeing the USSR during World War II. The Olhovsky family were parishioners of the Church of the Holy Dormition. He graduated from the St. Alexander Nevsky Parochial School in Howell, NJ, in 1991; and from Hamilton West High School in 1993. Nicholas received a Bachelor of Theology degree from [[Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (Jordanville, New York)|Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary]] in Jordanville, New York, in 1998, during which time he executed obediences in book-binding, iconography, and typography until 2002. In 1994, Nicholas was tonsured a [[reader]] by [[Bishop]] [[Hilarion (Kapral) of Manhattan]] on the feast of the [[Dormition of the Theotokos]] in Trenton. He received a Bachelors in Communication & Information Design from the State University of New York Institute of Technology in 2000.
===Cell-Attendant===Reader Nicholas served as the cell-attendant for [[Archbishop]] [[Laurus (Škurla) of SyracuseNew York|Laurus (Škurla)]] of Syracuse from March 1999 to March 2008. He accompanied him in May 2004 on the first official visit of ROCOR to Russia, after which he married the granddaughter of [[Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky) of Boston]]<ref>[http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2010/9enreposeelizavetaolhovskaya.html Elizabeth Olhovsky Passes Away]</ref>, Elizabeth Panteleymonovna Shohov, on November 14. [[Metropolitan]] Laurus ordained him to a [[subdeacon]] on January 8, 2005<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01newstucture/pagesen/news05/nativity.html His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus Officiates at Nativity Services at Holy Trinity Monastery and the Synodal Cathedral]</ref>. In May, they visited Metropolitan Laurus's homeland of Carpathian Russia in Slovakia<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01newstucture/pagesen/news05/carpathi.html His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus Visits His Homeland]</ref>. In May 2006, Subdeacon Nicholas served as a delegate to the IV All-Diasporan Church Council and on [[Pentecost]] of that year, June 11, was ordained to the [[diaconate]]<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2006/6enjvtroitsa.html His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus Officiates at the Solemn Pentecostal Services at Holy Trinity Monastery]</ref> and assigned to [[Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, New York)|Holy Trinity Monastery]] in Jordanvile, NY. Fr. Nicholas participated in the celebrations of the Act of Canonical Union with the [[Moscow Patriarchate]] in Moscow, Russia, and accompanied Metropolitan Laurus on a pilgrimage to the Diocese of Kursk and [[Church of Ukraine]]. He was awarded the double [[orarion]] on June 16, 2006.
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