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===The Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR)===
In the late 1960s, a group of Russian Orthodox Christians parted ways with the local Greek community and joined the Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii under the Omophorion of Archbishop Anthony of Los Angeles; they formed the St. [[Mark of Ephesus]] Russian Orthodox Mission Parish. In the early 1980s, this mission parish was later re-[[consecrate|consecrated]] under the heavenly protection of the [[Mother of God]] and is now known as the Holy [[Theotokos]] of [[Panagia Portaitissa|Iveron]] Russian Orthodox Church. In the late 1990s, the Council President of the Russian Orthodox community in Hawaii, Anatole Lyovin, was [[ordination|ordained]] to serve the Orthodox faithful in Hawaii. After many years of prayer, hard work and dedication, this community recently purchased a new Church complex in Kailua, Oahu. This church is also where the Miracleworking "Hawaiian" Iveron Icon of the Theotokos is brought on most Saturdays and Sundays for veneration, when not travelling to other churches. This community is under the spiritual care of Archbishop +[[Kyrill (Dmitrieff) of San Francisco]] ([[ROCOR]]). Two Four clergy are assigned to this parish; Priest Nectarios Yangson, the Rector, and Archpriest Anatole V. Lyovin, Pastor Emeritus, Archpriest Konstantin Sorrell, and Deacon Seraphim Stojance Andov.
In the mid to late 1990's, a separate Russian Orthodox mission community was established on the Big Island of Hawaii. It later became inactive.
In 2013, this community purchased a building in [[w:Honomu|Honomu]], on the east side of Hawaiʻi. The east-side mission is now known as [http://ascensionhilo.org Holy Ascension Orthodox Church].
The administrator of these mission parishes is Fr. Matthew Tate, and they are under the oversight Omophorion of His Eminence, Archbishop [[Benjamin (Peterson) of San Francisco]] of the [[Diocese of the West (OCA)|Diocese of the West]]. Fr. Archpriest George Gray, a retired archpriest from Portlandis attached to the St Juvenaly Church, now lives on the Big Island and cares for the needs Priest Benjamin Huggins is Rector of the two parishesHoly Ascension Mission.
==A Miracle in the Islands==
*Priest Nectarios Yangson, Rector of the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church, Honolulu, HI.
*Priest Columba Stephen Lally, Rector of Our Lady of the Angels Western-Rite Community, Kapaau, HI.
*Priest George HillBenjamin Huggins, ChaplainRector of the Holy Ascension Orthodox Mission, US Army Garrison, Schofield BarracksHonomou, HI.
*Archpriest George Gray, St. Juvenaly Orthodox Mission, Honalo, HI.
*Archpriest Anatole V. Lyovin, Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church, Honolulu, HI.
*Archpriest Konstantin Sorrell, Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church, Honolulu, HI.
*Priest George Hill, Chaplain, US Army Garrison, Schofield Barracks, HI
*Deacon Seraphim Stojance Andov, Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church, Honolulu, HI.
==References==
==Sources==
* Archimandrite Avgustin (Nikitin); "Gavraiskie ostrova i Rossiia (Obzor tserkovnykh sviazei i kontaktov" - (Saint-Petersburg; Minneapolis 2002)
* V. Rev. Fr [[Michael Protopopov]]; ''[httphttps://dlibraryacuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/digitalthesesdownload/public7a6f29d5f4ab0a9d13ba30eced67fe15b6b07e63c698a776224464e4706f77bb/adt-acuvp09042006.852271032/02whole%2065054_downloaded_stream_279.pdf A History of the Russian Orthodox Presence in Australia]'' - Submitted Thesis
* Pacific Commercial Advertiser, January 23, 1916
* ''[https://orthodoxhawaii.org/book TWO HUNDRED YEARS ON THE ROAD: A History of the Orthodox Church in Hawaii]'' by Amir A. Khisamutdinov and Rev. Anatole V. Lyovin. (Honolulu, HI., 2011)
