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During his Archieratical service, the Diocese and now Metropolis have established the Annual Youth Assemblies (1980); a monthly newspaper, Orthodox Way (1982); Social Services (1984); Metahomes (1984), providing transitional housing for the homeless; Greek Orthodox Order of Canada (1987); weekly television program Orthodox Voice (1990), which ...
The service is composed of Psalms, ektenias (litanies), hymns and prayers. In its outline it follows the general order of Matins [note 2] and is, in effect, a truncated funeral service. Some of the most notable portions of the service are the Kontakion of the Departed [note 3] and the final singing of "Memory Eternal" (Slavonic: Vyechnaya Pamyat).
The following list presents Eastern Orthodox churches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.As of January 2010, there are 28 Orthodox churches within Toronto, 9 Mission stations, 4 Chapels, and 1 monastery, for a total of 42 canonical Orthodox sanctuaries.
The Patriarchal Parishes of Russian Orthodox Church in Canada is a canonical unit of the Moscow Patriarchate in Canada. The headquarters of the church is in Edmonton ; home to St. Barbara Cathedral. From Edmonton, two traveling priests serve a number of rural churches in Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Manitoba .
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America (ACROD) is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .
The Archdiocese of Canada is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes , monasteries , and missions located in nine provinces and territories in Canada — Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Newfoundland & Labrador , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Quebec , Saskatchewan , and Yukon .
Koliva, also spelled, depending on the language, kollyva, kollyba, kolyvo, or colivÄ, [a] is a dish based on boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead.
The 40th Day after death is a traditional memorial service, family gathering, ceremony and ritual in memory of the departed on the 40th day after his or her death. The observation of the 40th day after death occurs in Syro-Malabar, Eastern Orthodox, and most Syriac Christian traditions (Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, and Syriac Catholic Church).