Metropolitan JONAH visits St. Tikhon's
On Thursday, November 20th, the St. Tikhon’s Monastery and Seminary community came together to welcome His Beatitude, the Most Blessed JONAH, Archbishop of Washington and New York, Metropolitan of all America and Canada, who made his first visit following his election on November 12th at the 15th All-American Council.
Baptized in the Episcopal Church, he converted to Orthodoxy while a student at University of California, San Diego. He graduated from St. Vladimir’s Seminary and received a Ph.D. at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1994 and in 1995 was tonsured to monastic rank at St. Tikhon's Monastery, having received the name Jonah.
Returning to California, Fr. Jonah served a number of missions and was later given the obedience to establish a monastery under the patronage of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco. During his time of building up the monastic community, Fr. Jonah also worked to establish missions in Merced, Sonora, Chico, Eureka, Redding, Susanville, and other communities in California, as well as in Kona, HI.
Metropolitan Jonah will be installed by the OCA's Holy Synod of Bishops at St. Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, on December 28, 2008.
May the Lord bless His Beatitude, Jonah, newly-elected Metropolitan of All America and Canada with many years of fruitful service in His Holy Vineyard!
Baptized in the Episcopal Church, he converted to Orthodoxy while a student at University of California, San Diego. He graduated from St. Vladimir’s Seminary and received a Ph.D. at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1994 and in 1995 was tonsured to monastic rank at St. Tikhon's Monastery, having received the name Jonah.
Returning to California, Fr. Jonah served a number of missions and was later given the obedience to establish a monastery under the patronage of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco. During his time of building up the monastic community, Fr. Jonah also worked to establish missions in Merced, Sonora, Chico, Eureka, Redding, Susanville, and other communities in California, as well as in Kona, HI.
Metropolitan Jonah will be installed by the OCA's Holy Synod of Bishops at St. Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, on December 28, 2008.
May the Lord bless His Beatitude, Jonah, newly-elected Metropolitan of All America and Canada with many years of fruitful service in His Holy Vineyard!
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