Feast Day at Holy Ascension Monastery - 2012

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Created on Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:46

The Feast Day of the Holy Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Ascension in Woodstock, NY. This year the monastery's Feast Day was celebrated on the new foundation of the exact replica of the Great Church of Aghia Sophia in Constantinople, now being constructed at the monastery. In attendance were Metropolitan Pavlos of America, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Attica, Met. Moses of Portland, and Bishop Christodoulos of Theoupolis, as well as other clergy, monastics, and the Faithful.

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