Metropolitan Longin’s Pastoral Visit to Indianapolis, Weatherby, and Kansas City

From September 17 through September 21, 2026 , His Eminence Archbishop of New Gračanica and Metropolitan of Midwestern America Longin made a pastoral visit to several communities of our Diocese, taking part in significant services, blessings, and gatherings with clergy and faithful.

The visit began in Indianapolis, Indiana , at St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church , where His Eminence blessed the cross and bells for the new church building. Together with parish priest Very Rev. Dragan Petrovic , Orthodox clergy from the greater Indianapolis area, and many faithful, Metropolitan Longin offered petitions for God’s help and mercy as the parish advances to another important stage in the construction of its new church.

The occasion was also documented by a local television station, marking an important moment in the life and continued growth of the St. Nicholas SOC parish community.

Watch the television report here.

Addressing the faithful, His Eminence emphasized that the Orthodox Christian faith must be lived and practiced:

“We should always remember that Orthodoxy is not a faith of theory but rather a living faith. We must practice it for it to be alive! It is a living…