PASTORAL CONFERENCE
The
forthcoming expanded pastoral conference entitled “Path
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: Past and
Future,” is scheduled for 8-12 December 2003 at Holy
Virgin Protection Church in Nyack and Best Western Hotel
not far from the church. The Conference is scheduled around
the feast day of the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Sign, which will be celebrated with great ceremony, and
will conclude the festivities relating to the 100th anniversary
of the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov. Vestments
will be blue.
All the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of
Russia and priests of the North American dioceses are called
to participate in the Conference. In addition, delegates
from all the other dioceses of our Church will take part.
Lectures will be read by Archbishop Mark: “The Path
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Past and
Future;” Protopriest Nikolai Artemoff: “Sergianism
and the Regulations of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of
Russia in Accordance to Ukase No. 362;” Protopriest
Peter Perekrestov: “St. John (Maximovich) the Miracle-worker’s
View of the Russian Church in the 20th Century;” Archimandrite
Tikhon (Shevkunov): “Monasteries and Monastic Life
in Present-day Russia;” Protopriest George Mitrofanov:
“New Martyrs and Witnesses of Russia;” and Priest
Igor Chitikov: “North America as the Canonical Territory
of the Russian Church.”
All lectures and presentations will be synchronously translated
into English.
Registration is US $400.00, and includes room and
board, transportation between the hotel and Conference location
and the Synodal Cathedral. Clergy must register no later
that 12/25 November, after which an additional $200.00 will
be charged. The participation in the Conference and travel
expenses of the priests must be covered by their corresponding
parish.
Transportation will only be provided between Best Western,
the church hall and the Synod. Those clergymen who make
other accommodation arrangements are responsible for their
own transportation and for breakfast, which will be served
at the hotel. Those who wish to arrive earlier or stay longer
must assume corresponding costs themselves.
For further information, please contact Priest Serafim Gan
at the Synod, at (212) 534-1601 or via e-mail at revsgan@hotmail.com.
Checks should be made out to the “Synod of Bishops”
with the memo “Pastoral Conference registration”
and sent to:
Synod of Bishops
attn: Rev. Serafim Gan
75 East 93rd Street
New York, NY 10128
Registration
form in PDF format
PASTORAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Sunday, 7 December
7:30 pm Registration at the church hall, assignment of hotel
rooms. Greeting and fraternizing of delegates of the Conference
and visitors from Russia (with refreshments).
Monday, 8 December
7:30 am Divine liturgy at Protection Church, Nyack
from 8 am Continuation of registration at the church hall
9:30 am Service of supplication (moleben) to the Mother
of God and St. Seraphim
10:15 am Opening of the Conference, election of the Vice
President for the first day, the secretaries and auditing
committee.
11 am Lecture No. 1: “The Path of Russian Orthodox
Church Outside of Russia, Past and Future,” by Archbishop
Mark of Berlin and Germany
11:30 am Question/answer period, discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Round table: “Russian Orthodox Church Outside
of Russia Today”
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Lecture No. 2: “Monasteries and Monastic Life
in Russia Today,” by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov),
prior of the Sretensky Monastery, Moscow (ROC-MP)
4:30 pm Question/answer period, discussion
5:30 pm Break
6 pm Roundtable: “The Church in Russia Today”
7:30 pm Dinner
8:30 pm Evening prayers at the church
Tuesday, 9 December
6:30 am Divine liturgy at Protection Church
9 am Lecture No. 3: “‘Sergianism’ and the
Regulations of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
in Accordance with Ukase No. 362,” by Protopriest Nikolai
Artemoff
9:30 am Question/answer period, discussion
10:30 am Breakfast
11:30 am Roundtable: “Russian Orthodox Church Outside
of Russia/MP during the Soviet regime”
1 pm Break
1:30 pm Lecture No. 4: “St. John (Maximovitch) the
Miracle-workers’s View of the Russian Church in the
20th Century,” by Protopriest Peter Perekrestov
2 pm Question/answer period, discussion
2:45 pm Lunch
3:45 pm Departure for the hotel
5 pm Departure for New York (reading of the Rules in the
bus)
6:30 pm Vigil at the Synodal Cathedral
10 pm Departure for Nyack
Wednesday, 10 December
Celebration of the Feast Day of the Synodal Cathedral and
the 100th Anniversary of the Glorification of St. Seraphim
of Sarov. (It is expected that the icon of the young Prokhor
before the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God will be
completed and blessed.)
7:45 am Departure for New York (morning prayers read in
the bus)
9:20 am Greeting of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of
God
9:30 am Greeting of His Eminence the First Hierarch, divine
liturgy and service of supplication (moleben) to the Most-Pure
Mother of God and St. Seraphim with a procession of the
cross
2 pm Banquet at Wallace Hall (near the Synod)
5 pm Departure for Nyack
7:30/8 pm Meeting of the Conferees at the hotel hall
Thursday, 11 December
6:30 am Divine liturgy, Protection Church
9 am Lecture No. 5: “The New Martyrs and Witnesses
of Russia,” by Protopriest George Mitrofanov, St. Petersburg
(ROC-MP)
9:30 am Question/answer period, discussion
10:30 am Break
11 am Roundtable: “The Glorification of the New Martyrs
in the Russian Diaspora and in Russia”
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Roundtable: “Ecumenism” (with a foreword
by our deacon from St. Petersburg, Deacon Nikolai Savchenko)
3:30 pm Break
4 pm Plenary meeting
6 pm Dinner
7 pm Evening prayers/free time
Friday, 12 December
6:30 am Divine liturgy, Protection Church, Nyack
9 am Lecture No. 7: “North America as the Canonical
Territory of the Russian Church,” by Priest Igor Chitikov
9:30 am Question/answer period, discussion
10:30 am Adoption of resolutions, closing remarks and closing
of the Conference
11:30 am Service of supplication (moleben) of gratitude
12 noon Lunch and departures (hotel key returns until 5
pm)
