RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

In the year 863 two brothers, Cyril and Methodius, set out from Constantinople, one of the five centers of the Church, to preach the Gospel of Christ to the Slavic peoples. The Slavic language had...
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist

Our parish was organized by the saintly hierarch Archbishop John (Maximovich) in September, 1949. For nine years our congregation assembled each Sunday for Liturgy in the Resurrection Chapel of...
A Church's 60-year Long Path

Among the parishioners of Washington ’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, there are still people who 60 years ago laid its foundation, and were among the first to participate in its Divine Services...

Life of St.John Maximovich, founder of our Parish

One Archbishop John was born on June 4, 1896 in Kharkov province, to the pious aristocrats Boris and Glafira Maximovitch; at baptism he was given the name Michael. Even in childhood Michael...
Letters written by Holy Hierarch John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Our parishioners Lev Alexandrovitch and Elena Mikhailovna Boulavsky have given our parish part of the archives belonging to Lev Alexandrovitch’s parents, Alexander Leonidovitch (our first parish...
Icons from the Philippine Island of Tubabao

Among the effects of the late Tatiana Valentinovna Deev (+2004) given to our community we found three large icons, a Holy Epitaphion, and several other holy things.