Where might I find a list of the honored dead of the Byzantine Church of America? Is such a list online or do I need to contact the Eparchy office?

I noticed recently that Eastern Christian Publications is offering a Necrology of Clergy and Religious, listed among the new titles on the ECP website.

Thanks.

I am a bit surprised that this information isn't readily available. Our entire Metropolia is tiny with very few priests. I don't see why the Metropolia doesn't simply publish the list and have it distributed to every church.

Carson, at one time Msgr William Levkulic published it as part of the directory of clergy that was distributed through the Byzantine Seminary Press. I did the design and layout for the latest edition of that directory back in 2000. The last two directories published by the Metropolia also includes a Necrology, but only for the last five years or so, not the entire history of our Church.

I decided, for the Year of Priests, to re-constitute the full Necrology, update it with departed clergy up through the end of 2011, and publish a new version with both a chronological listing (as before) AND an alphabetical listing (so one could find the date for a deceased cleric by name, not knowing when they died, which could not be done in previous versions).

The time and effort for these updates, and the cost of producing booklets that can be used at the Proskomedia Table for each Divine Liturgy, is not nothing. Therefore we sell these at cost ($10.00) plus the cost of postage.

If you wish to donate the money necessary for the Metropolia to print and distribute copies to each parish, I'm sure Archbishop William would be glad to hear from you!

Jack

Jack,

Thank you for your efforts. I'm still surprised that this isn't part of some annual report by the Metropolia. Then I remember we rarely meet and we rarely get any reports. Perhaps that's a good thing. I don't know. But if we are to properly honor our dearly departed priests we ought to be reminded regularly who they are. I could be wrong.

CDL

We (the Eparchy of Newton of the Melkites) are obviously much smaller than the Metropolia but, for several years now, the annual calendar published by the Eparchy lists the ordination dates of all deacons and priests and the dates of repose. The listings appear on the calendar for the month in which they occurred.

Those included date back to our earliest times in the US and, have occasionally been updated to add a name that was previously overlooked. A number of our parishes (perhaps all, of that I'm not sure) include, in their weekly prayers for those who have reposed in the Lord, the names of all clergy who reposed in that week over the years.

Many years,

Neil

God bless the Melkites. How are we to pray for or pray to these or even remember if they aren't listed? Good for the Melkites. BTW All Eastern Catholic Churches in America are so small that there is little excuse for not honoring our beloved priests.

One of our Eparchial newspapers prints a monthly hramota of the deceased priests, sisters and other religious of the Metropolia. Ours also goes back to the earliest times of the Metropolia in the US. At least one parish I know of also has a monthly Panakhida for all of the deceased priests, nuns, etc.

Diak,

That is most encouraging. I'll ask Father if we might do this as well.