Metropolitan Tikhon Announces Stewardship Sunday 2026 and the Establishment of the 1794 Society

In an archpastoral message to the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon announces that Stewardship Sunday will be observed on November 22, 2026. His Beatitude asks the faithful, parishes, and institutions to take up a special collection in support of the work of the Orthodox Church in America and invites the faithful to give as they are able.

Writing at the beginning of the Nativity Fast, Metropolitan Tikhon encourages the faithful to join prayer and fasting with generosity. The Stewardship Sunday offering supports work that parishes and dioceses undertake together, including mission planting, care for clergy and their families, youth and young adult ministry, liturgical music and translation, and Christian education.

In the same message, His Beatitude announces the establishment of the 1794 Society, named for the year Saint Herman and his fellow Orthodox missionaries arrived in Kodiak, Alaska. The Society builds on the work of the Fellowship of Orthodox Stewards and the Stewards of the OCA, with a renewed focus on annual giving and fellowship.

The Society will also help sustain the work of the primatial office…