Communiqué from the Office of the Archdiocese, 3rd September

Following their repeated and urgent requests as well as their Petition, so that they can live in the fullness of the grace of the Orthodox Church, on the 21 and 23 August last the clergy and communities listed below were received by canonical economy into the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of the Russian Tradition in Western Europe:

– Priest Thomas Cook (parish of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Nottingham, and community of St Birinus, Isleworth, London);

– Hieromonk Patrick (John) Ramsey (parish of St George the Great Martyr, Eccles, Norfolk);

–  Archipriest Andrew Phillips, (parish of St John of Shanghai, Colchester, parish of St Matrona of Moscow, Wisbech, and parish of St Felix, Apostle of East Anglia, Felixstowe);

–  Archipriest Leonid Tauleanu (parish of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Little  Abington);

– Priest Alexander Visan (parish of St John of Shanghai, Colchester);

– Priest George Petrovsky (parish of Our Lady of Kazan, Coventry, and parish of St Vladimir, Cheltenham);

 – Priest Ioan Iana (parish of St John of Shanghai, Colchester);

– Deacon Timothy Phillips (parish of St John of Shanghai, Colchester);

– Deacon Sergiu Smantana (parish of St John of Shanghai, Colchester)