A Statement from Archpriest Peter Heers

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To Whom It May Concern:

Recently I was blessed to visit Nashville, TN and I asked Met. Nicholas of New York for a blessing to serve at the ROCOR parish in Lebanon, which he immediately and graciously extended, for I am a priest in good standing, not under any church discipline. For the same reasons, I was blessed to serve with His Grace Bishop Luke while visiting Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville for the feast of the Holy Protection. (And, for the same reasons, I was blessed by Bishop Longin to serve at St. Savas Monastery in Chicago a few weeks earlier, and at the St. Petka parish in Nashville earlier this year.) In 2021 I was received into ROCOR by Metropolitan Hilarion of New York (of blessed memory) and assigned to the clergy of Holy Trinity Monastery, being a lecturer at Holy Trinity Seminary in the certificate program. Sometime later, due to an irregularity with regard to my release and reception, the Holy Synod suggested that I find a way to re-regularize my position. As is clear from the above (and below), I have been blessed (by several Hierarchs) to concelebrate and serve while this process takes place. In Christ, Archpriest Peter A. Heers

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Father Peter and Presbytera meeting with Vladyka Hilarion of New York a Few Weeks Before His Repose on Bright Thursday (April 28th, 2022).

With Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, Cyprus (in the Cathedral Church of St. Mamas, Feast of the Holy Transfiguration). August, 2022.

Serving Divine Liturgy with Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, Cyprus (in the Cathedral church of St. Mamas, Feast of the Holy Transfiguration). August, 2022.

Fr Peter Serving Vespers at St. Petka’s Serbian Orthodox Church Nashville, TN (August, 2022)

Fr Peter Reading the Gospel During Divine Liturgy at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery, Chicago, IL. (October, 2022)

Fr Peter Reading During the All Night Vigil at the Antiochian Village, Ligonier, PA, for the feast of St. John the Theologian (October 2022)

Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY, with Bishop Luke, on the Feast of the Holy Protection (October, 2022)

With Fr. Christopher Stanton of St. Peter Krutitsy Russian Orthodox Church, Lebanon, TN. (October 2022).

Members of the Heers family with His Grace Bishop Basil of Wichita, Antiochian Archdiocese. (October, 2022).

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