The Shepherd, May 2010
NEWS SECTION
BISHOP DANIEL REPOSES
HIS GRACE, Bishop Daniel (Alexandrow) of Erie, reposed in the Lord on 13th /26th April. He was vicar bishop of Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) and cared for the Old Ritualists. He had been ailing for several years. He was an iconographer, a church architect, an expert on the church typicon, as well as of early Znamenny chant. He was also a translator, and the author of several works of literature. When, in 1993, a commission was established to investigate the possibility of restoring communion between the Synod in Resistance of the Church of Greece and the Russian Church Abroad, Bishop Daniel was an enthusiastic supporter of this move, showing generous and heartfelt attention and sympathy and writing to express his joy at the prospect. After a year of study and deliberation, the committee advised the ROCA to effect a union between our Churches, which took place in 1994, and lasted until ROCA restored full communion with the Moscow Patriarchate. Bishop Daniel, whom the present compiler of this magazine met at the Fourth All-Diaspora Assembly in San Francisco in 2006 (staying in the same house), was forthright in expressing his opposition to the impending rapprochement with Moscow, although he stated that, because of his old age and infirmity, he would not be prepared to help consecrate a continuing hierarchy. In the event, under circumstances and for reasons which we do not know, he accepted the untimely rapprochement. May he find rest with the Saints and may his Memory be Eternal!
SERBIAN PARISH JOINS SiR
ON THE FEAST of St Alexis, the Man of God, His Eminence Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna issued the following announcement: “I am pleased to announce that, after a period of deliberations and discussions, and with the blessing of the Standing Synod, the American Exarchate of our Church has accepted the petition of the Holy Archangel Michael Orthodox Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to be received into our jurisdiction. The parish, concerned about the course of the Serbian Patriarchate in many areas, and especially with regard to its participation in the ecumenical movement, expressed its interest in our moderate, quiet resistance and, together with its Priest, decided to join us in our witness to Orthodox tradition. This flowering of the pan-Orthodox witness of our Holy Synod, embracing a small flock of faithful from all national backgrounds, binds us firmly to Holy Tradition.”
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