NEW YORK: 28 February 2025
Circular decree from the Synod of Bishops

Ukase from the Synod of Bishops
No. 01/02/2025

During a session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, held on 12/25 February 2025, it was DECREED: regarding the Church-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the repose of Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and Saint Jonah, Bishop of Hankow, the Holy Confessors of the twentieth century.

RESOLVED: 1) To call upon the bishops and clergy to commemorate the above-mentioned saints at all dismissals of the Divine Liturgies until November 21/December 4, the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, the day of the Patriarchal enthronement of St Tikhon. 2) To dedicate all clergy conferences, youth conferences, church music forums, and other church events organized in the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to these memorable dates. 3) On Sunday, March 24/April 6, the fifth Sunday of Great Lent, the Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, in all parishes and monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, to prayerfully honor the memory of St Tikhon, who reposed on the feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1925, by serving a moleben to him and delivering a sermon befitting the occasion. 4) To prayerfully commemorate the 100th anniversary of the repose of Saints Tikhon and Jonah at a session of the Synod of Bishops, timed to coincide with the patronal feast day of the Cathedral of Our Lady “of the Sign” in New York in December of this year.

For which to issue this decree.

+ NICHOLAS
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York
President of the Synod of Bishops

+ KYRILL
Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America
Secretary of the Synod of Bishops