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Today's feasts June 16: Saint Tikhon (Tychon), Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus, Wonder-worker; Saint Tikhon (Tychon) of Luchov, Kostroma; Saint Tikhon of Kaluga or Medin; Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk (Vologda); Martyrs Tigirius (Tigrius) the Presbyter and Eutropius the Reader, of Constantinople; Saint Mark the Just of Apollonia, nephew of Apostle Barnabas; New-Martyr Hermogenes (Germogen), Bishop of Tobolsk; Saint Qiakhosro of Georgia; Saint Ismael, Bishop of Menevia; Saint Juliot, sister of Saint Nectan of Hartland (see also June 17 and December 4); five martyrs of Nicomedia; forty martyrs of Rome; repose of Archimandrite Moses, founder of Optina Skete; repose of Elder Gerasimus of Saint Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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