On Monday, January 23, the Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, Archpriest Igor Vyzhanov, visited the Patriarchal estate in Pine Bush, New York — a parcel of rural land acquired in the 1960s, on which stand the Church of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land and a small Orthodox cemetery. The head of the chancery of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, Priest Mark Rashkov, also took part in the working trip.
The rector of the church, Priest Artemy Kulikovsky, gave a tour and told Fr. Igor about the present-day life of the parish.
The clergy, accompanied by the wife and daughter of the former rector of All Saints Church, the recently reposed Archpriest Nicholas Babiychuk, visited the resting places of Fr. Nicholas and of the founder of the Patriarchal estate, Archbishop Dositheus (Ivanchenko, +1984), in the parish cemetery. Fr. Igor served a litiya for the departed, and all present sang Memory Eternal.
Fellowship continued over a meal in the parish house prepared by Matushka Ekaterina Babiychuk and Matushka Olga Kulikovskaya. Fr. Igor thanked Fr. Artemy and his whole family for their labors for the good of the Russian Church and wished them strength and God’s help in the future.
