On Thursday, November 7, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York began his archpastoral visit to the Western American Diocese.

His Eminence inaugurated his visit with a moleben before the relics of the Holy Hierarch John the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Shanghai & San Francisco, in the Cathedral of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in San Francisco.

On Monday, November 11, the great consecration of Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Santa Rosa, CA, will take place.