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This past weekend saw an auspicious occasion in the life of the parish of St Peter and St Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie, PA – the ordination of a deacon. On Saturday, September 16th, by the Grace of God and the laying on of hands by His Eminence Archbishop Daniel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, Subdeacon Cliff O’Neil was ordained into the order of the diaconate as Deacon Evan (Clifford) O’Neil, a graduate of St Sophia Seminary in South Bound Brook, NJ.