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Meeting in its regular Fall Session under the presidency of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America made several decisions related to the upcoming canonization of Matushka Olga.
The Holy Synod has decided that Matushka Olga’s liturgical glorification will take place at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, AK, with the Vigil and Glorification taking place on the evening of Thursday, June 19, 2025. Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in Kwethluk on Friday, June 20, 2025.
Celebrations of the glorification will continue with services at St. Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage for the Sunday of All Saints of North America, Saturday, June 21 – Sunday, June 22. Finally, a capstone celebration will take place of the 21st All-American Council in Phoenix, AZ, on July 16 – 17, 2025.
Additionally, the Holy Synod has clarified and confirmed that Matushka Olga’s feast day will henceforth be celebrated annually on October 27 (Revised Julian; Julian October 27 / November 9), with the first celebration taking place in temples of the Orthodox Church in America on October 26 – 27, 2025. The Synod further decreed that our righteous mother Olga shall be commemorated with a Doxology-rank celebration, except in the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska, where her memory may be celebrated with a Vigil.
