New York, March 5, 2025
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has issued a directive regarding the Church-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the repose of two great Holy Hierarchs and Confessors of the 20th-century—St. Tikhon of Moscow and St. Jonah of Hankow.
The Synod’s decrees from its session on February 25 include various liturgical instructions and for all conference and other Church events throughout the year to be dedicated to Sts. Tikhon and Jonah.
The hierarchs resolved:
1) To call upon the bishops and clergy to commemorate the above-mentioned saints at all dismissals of the Divine Liturgies until November 21/December 4, the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, the day of the Patriarchal enthronement of St Tikhon. 2) To dedicate all clergy conferences, youth conferences, church music forums, and other church events organized in the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to these memorable dates. 3) On Sunday, March 24/April 6, the fifth Sunday of Great Lent, the Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, in all parishes and monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, to prayerfully honor the memory of St Tikhon, who reposed on the feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1925, by serving a moleben to him and delivering a sermon befitting the occasion. 4) To prayerfully commemorate the 100th anniversary of the repose of Saints Tikhon and Jonah at a session of the Synod of Bishops, timed to coincide with the patronal feast day of the Cathedral of Our Lady “of the Sign” in New York in December of this year.
St. Tikhon reposed on March 25/April 7, 1925, and St. Jonah reposed on October 7/20, of the same year.
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Source: Orthodox Christianity
