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In a prayerful two-hour liturgy on February 9, 2019 – the feast of the translation of the relics of St. John Chrysostom, Vladyka Daniel ordained Subdeacon Valentine Olynyk of St. Andrew the First-Called Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church (South bound Brook, NJ) to Deaconate.