Brooklyn: Archbishop Elpidophoros awarded Fr. Alexander Belia with the Saint Paul Medaltranslated

On the occasion of the completion of 70 years since the birth of His Eminence Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Fr. Alexander Belia, the Most Reverend Archbishop of America Mr. Elpidophoros presided, on Sunday, at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Brooklyn, New York. The Most Reverend Bishop of Nazianzus, Mr. Athenagoras, the Most Reverend Bishop of Diocleia, Mr. Nektarios, and the Most Reverend Archimandrite Alexander Belia, Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of America and elected Bishop of Nicopolis, collaborated with His Eminence.

The priestly head of the Cathedral, His Eminence Protopriest of the Ecumenical Throne Fr. Oleksandr Belya, the Most Reverend Propriests Fr. Boris Babesko, Fr. Ivan Voloschuk, Fr. Igor Tarasov, Fr. Vasil Deyak, Fr. Rostislav Zadorozny, Fr. Petr Prakaptsou and Fr. Maxim Pliskou, His Eminence Archimandrite Tykhon Gaifudinov, the guest of the feast Fr. Anatoli, Archdeacon Dionysios Papyris and Protodeacon Volodymyr Olyinik.

After the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Archbishop Mr. Elpidophoros awarded the...