The design of the new church located at 6520 Broadview Road, Parma Ohio, was completed under the guiding hands of Fr. This of course gave even more impetus and zeal to the organizers of the new church's construction. He assisted greatly in encouraging the endeavours of the parish to build a new church in Parma, and, being an accomplished iconographer, and frescoer, promised to fresco the church when it was completed. In 1974 The Synod elevated Hieromonk Alypy from the Holy Trinity Monastery NY to the rank of Bishop and sent him to assist in the administration of the Cleveland churches in the Chicago and Detroit diocese.Īrchbishop Alypy is currently the presiding Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Detroit. The dioceses of Chicago and Cleveland, and Detroit had been combined after the repose of Archbishop Ieronim, and the governance of the newly formed midwest diocese was then passed on to Archbishop Seraphim.Īfter several years Archbishop Seraphim, who was himself quite advanced in years, requested the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Outside of Russia, to appoint a Vicar Bishop to assist in the administration of the Diocese. During this time it was also with much sadness that the diocese of Detroit lost Archbishop Ieronim, and the Diocese of Chicago and Cleveland lost Archbishop Gregory. In the time that had passed while the church was located on the East-Side of Cleveland, Metropolitan Anastassi had passed away, the young and saintly Metropolitan Philaret took the reigns of the Russian Church Abroad.

Jurewicz theodore iconographer