NEW JERSEY: December 23, 2024
Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York officiates at the funeral and burial of his father

On Saturday, December 21, 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York celebrated Divine Liturgy for the departed at St Vladimir Memorial Church to the 1000th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus in New Jersey.

His Eminence was joined by Archpriest Serge Ledkovsky, Deputy Rector of Memorial Church, and representatives of the clergy of the Eastern American Diocese. Praying in the church were the brothers of His Eminence Vladyka Nicholas, Sergei and Pavel Olhovsky, relatives and friends, parishioners.

At the end of the service, a memorial meal was offered in the large parish hall.

The next day, His Eminence, having celebrated Divine Liturgy in the cathedral church of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY, and partaking in refreshments at the monastery trapeza, performed a pannikhida and burial of the newly-departed Alexander in the nearby cemetery of the monastery.

The Kingdom of Heaven and eternal rest to the newly-departed Alexander!