Metropolitan Jonah on the Western Rite

"We are a single community of Orthodox Christians, and we are the local Church in Dallas, the local Church in Northeast Texas. It doesn't matter that we have all these various administrative jurisdictions, ultimately, because we gather together as one Body, to pray with one mind and one heart, to celebrate the same Eucharist, to come to the same chalice. It doesn't matter if we are Eastern Rite or Western Rite, doesn't matter the language in the service is, but...we are one Church. We are one local Church, and I might add, we are one indigenous Church."

- comments by Metr. Jonah, April 2009


above: Metropolitan Jonah, Orthodox Church in America

Greetings, Fr. Patrick!

One of the recently-received Western rite clergy in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, is Fr. Patrick Lowery of Michigan.



Ad multos annos, Pater! Welcome.