On September 9, 2023, the rector of St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York, Archpriest Igor Vyzhanov, took part in the celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God at the Dormition Novo-Diveevo Convent of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
The feast, celebrated on September 8 (New Style), was transferred to Saturday at the convent. After the Divine Liturgy, the clergy and numerous pilgrims held the traditional procession with the convent’s revered Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, which was given in its time by the last Optina elders, Anatoly and Nektary, to Priest Adrian Rymarenko, the future Archbishop Andrew, who founded Novo-Diveevo.
The procession went around the entire grounds of the convent, including the largest Russian Orthodox cemetery in the USA located there. Then all participants in the celebration were offered a monastery lunch in the convent refectory.