Monastic Synaxis Communique

In continuation to the August 5, 2022, communication concerning the convening of the 2nd Monastic Synaxis scheduled for October 12-14, 2022, at the Holy Monastery of the Life-giving Spring in Dunlap, CA, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announces that due to the forthcoming official visit of His Beatitude Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, which coincides with the aforementioned dates, the 2nd Monastic Synaxis will now be held at the Holy Monastery of St. Anthony in Florence, AZ, the days of December 16-18, 2022, together with the three-year memorial of the late Elder Ephraim, founder of Orthodox Monasticism in America.