Traditional Western Orthodox Church - Our Lady of Tender Mercy Mission in CNY

Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia
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Our Lady of Tender Mercy

Traditional Western Orthodox

Mission Church

of Central/Southern new York state

p.o.box 476 university station | syracuse, new york 13210-0476
telephone: 315.423.0339
e-mail: orthodoxwest@geocities.com

under the spiritual direction of
His Eminence Archbishop +JOHN
Archdiocese of New York & New Jersey

locally administered by
Rev'd. Father Symeon
of Syracuse

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Introduction

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Our Church and her faithful are Traditional observant Orthodox Christians worshipping according to the ancient liturgical style of the Orthodox Church in Western Europe prior to the Great Schism of 1054 a.d.

Our monastics, likewise, live a life of repentance and service in obedience to the Rule of our father among the saints, Saint Benedict of Nursia. Liturgical services in our monasteries, abbeys and convents adhere to the Old Sarum Rite Monastic Offices in accordance with the very rule of the same Saint Benedict.

The need for an Orthodox Christian witness that was led by Western born Hierarchy while not weighed down by ethnocentricism was seen as very much needed. St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of San Francisco & Shanghai, is for us our heavenly patron of the Western Rite due to his own promotion of a genuine Western Orthodoxy. It was the Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Greece under Archbishop Auxentios' presidency that established a Metropolia for the West with the concecration of Metropolitan Gabriel of Portugal. This would become our present Church.

Under the capable archpastoral leadership of His Beatitude, Metropolitan +Evloghios of Milan & Aquileia, our current Primate, the Holy Synod of Milan was given its Tomos of Autonomy from the Old Calendar Church of Greece by the hand of Archbishop Auxentios in September 1984. While in communion with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Exile under the Blessed +Mystyslav; he became the First Pariarch of Kiev. Subsequently, our Holy Synod was received under the spiritual protection of the Kievian Patriarchate. The Blessed +Volodymir, the 2nd Patriarch of Kiev, also recognized us with a second Tomos of Autonomy in March 1994.

Known as the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Western Europe & the Americas our mission is to provide a genuine, traditional --though moderate-- Orthodox Christian witness and to provide spiritual direction for those of Western birth.

last updated April 1999

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