I'm honored to announce that I will be this year's speaker for the 8th Annual St Alexis (Toth) Lecture in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The lecture, "The Becherov Factor: How One Village’s Natives Led the Carpatho-Rusyn American Return to Orthodoxy," will explore the integral presence of natives of Becherov (in Rusyn: Becheriv), in present-day northeastern Slovakia, throughout the history and life of St. Mary's Cathedral in Minneapolis, and in the return to Orthodoxy in other places like Catasauqua, Sheppton, St. Clair, McKeesport, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It will also look at the influence of two Orthodox priests born in Becherov, Fr. Gregory Varhol and Fr. Peter Kohanik, in numerous Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant communities in their return to Orthodoxy.
The event is sponsored by St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral. It will take place on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 7:15 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish Center, 1701 5th Street NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota. All are welcome to attend.
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