Conventions

The 85th annual national convention of the Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America (FOCA) was held at the Westin Alexandria in Virginia over the Labor Day weekend and attended by several hundred members and guests. The liturgical celebrations were led by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, the FOCA’s spiritual leader, and by His Grace, Bishop Michael of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey; both gave words of inspiration at the banquet after Divine Liturgy. In convention action, the assembly unanimously pledged $300,000 to the St.