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June 7, 2025 Trinity Parents Saturday Panikhida at Vancouver Orthodox Cemetery

Apr 6, 2025 Annual Parish Meeting

Annual Parish Meeting will take place on April 6, 2025

Christ is in our midst!

Dear members of the Holy Resurrection Sobor!

I wish to remind you that we are going to have our Annual Parish Meeting on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 12:30 pm after the Divine Liturgy and Pot-Luck Lunch.

Please try to make an effort to attend this Meeting. If you

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Holy Resurrection Choir Presentation

July 23, 2024 – Funeral service for Alexander Naboka

Congratulations on the Centenary of the parish from Yana Sherstyak

Translation from Russian:

Hello, my name is Yana Sherstyak, I am a parishioner of the Holy Resurrection Church. I would like to congratulate this temple on its anniversary on such a big date!

I came to Canada in 1999, almost immediately found this temple, and began going to it. Father Andrey was still alive

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Congratulations on the Centenary of the parish from Tatyana Yelizarov

Translation from Russian

My name is Tatyana Elizarova. I have been here in Canada with my husband and family for over 30 years. It so happened that I came to the church only 6 years ago. My husband Nikolai Elizarov really wanted to baptize our grandchildren, we got together, organized everything and since then

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Congratulations on the Сentenary of the parish from Larisa Drozdenko

Translation from Russian

Hello, my name is Larysa Drozdenko

I came to Vancouver with my family in 2007. We immediately found our church. My family and I stayed in this church for 14 years.

3 years ago, I had a big tragedy in my family. My husband died tragically. I want to say

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July 9 2024 Interview with Arthur Kostiha

Excerpts from the interview with Arthur Kostiha

I was born in Vancouver actually in New Westminster and grew up in rural Coquitlam. My grandparents from Czechoslovakia had a farm. Eventually I went to school and then to Simon Fraser University and finally I ended up working at the Royal Colombian hospital for nearly 40

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God Grant you many years, Pavel

June 27, 2024 – Memorial service for the departed parishioners of our Temple

On June 27, 2024 (the Trinity Week), Father Mikhail Fourik celebrated a memorial service for the departed parishioners of our Cathedral at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver. Please remember our predecessors.

The slideshow below contains photographs of surviving tombstones. If anyone knows

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Info from Heritage Gardens Cemetery

Baptism and First communion of baby Alexander (Sander)

On August 5, 2023, in our Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Sobor in the city of Vancouver, the baptism of baby Alexander (Sander) took place and this day will no doubt remain in our memory as one of the most joyful and happiest days in our lives.

We were very glad to see all our

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From the Rector – Soul Saturday and General PANIKHIDA

Christ is amongst us!

Dear brothers and sisters, on the Soul Saturday, June 3, in our Church at 6 pm we’ll have Vespers and General PANIKHIDA.

On the Pentecost Sunday, right after the Divine Liturgy all of us go to our Orthodox Cemetery for PANIKHIDA. After the Panikhida we’ll have a memorial pot

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In memory of Yuri Gusev

Our parishioner Yuri Gusev died on March 8, 2023 as a result of an illness.

The funeral service for Yuri (in the baptism of George) was held at the Monastery of All Saints of North America on Devdni 11 March.Yuri is buried in our Orthodox cemetery.

March 12, 2023 – Litiya for the deceased

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35th Anniversary of Fr. Michael Fourik’s ordination to the Priesthood

On the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos the Holy Resurrection Sobor in Vancouver celebrated the 35th Anniversary of Fr. Michael Fourik’s ordination to the Priesthood.

Fr. Michael was appointed as rector of Holy Resurrection in October 1999. In 2003, in recognition of his devoted service, Father Michael was elevated to the

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May 18th 2022. Funeral Service for Karine Karibian

We invite you to join the live broadcast of the service from our Church on May 18th, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST.

In order to receive notifications about scheduled broadcasts and published videos, we recommend you to subscribe to our video channel HolyRes in YouTube.

You also may submit your names/memory books to be read/mentioned

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Evgeny Drozdenko’s biography

Eugene was a wonderful friend, husband, and an exceptional father.

He was born on November 26, 1974 in Uman – a city located in Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine, to the east of Vinnytsia. Uman is the administrative center of Uman Raion

When Eugene was young his family moved up north to a

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August 8 Short memorial service for Evgeny Drozdenko

On August 5, our parishioner Yevgeny Drozdenko died tragically.

Evgeny had a light, non-conflict character. He was distinguished by courage, reliability, justice, friendliness and kindness to others. Many, with his help, were able to get a job.

Evgeny devoted a lot of time and effort to our Sobor. His youngest son Michael serves at the altar and sings church tunes wonderfully.

We

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November 27th, 2020. Funeral Service. Matushka Laura – live broadcast

Memorial and Funeral Services will be held in our Church on November 26 and 27th 2020. Due to pandemic only immediate family members are allowed in the church. We invite you to join the live broadcast of the Funeral Service from our Church on November 27th 2020 at 10 AM PST.

Some information about

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November 26th, 2020. Memorial Service. Matushka Laura. Live broadcast

Memorial and Funeral Services will be held in our Church on November 26 and 27th 2020. Due to pandemic only immediate family members are allowed in the church. We invite you to join the live broadcast of the Memorial Service from our Church on November 26 2020 at 7 PM PST.

Some information about

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Olga Fetisova passed away on Oct 5, 2020

Dear friends!

Eternal memory to Olga Petrovna Fetisova. She left on October 5th.

Panikhida at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral on Wednesday 7 October at 18:30

The funeral service is on Thursday 8 October at 10:00.

Everlasting memory!

In Christ Father Michael Please read more about Olga at http://orthodoxcanada.ca/Eugene_and_Olga_Fetissoff

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Memory Eternal to Marina Koskinen
November 28, 1935 – June 30, 2020

Marina is our parishioner. Many of us will remember her smile, her benevolent nature, attention to people. Marina passed away unexpectedly in the evening of June 30th, 2020 in Vancouver General Hospital at the age of 84. She will be remembered and sadly missed by her son, Darrell; daughter-in-law, Sherie; granddaughter, Tabitha; great-granddaughter, Hayden;

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November 28, 1935 – June 30, 2020

Aug 13 2020 Jessica Baptising

Jessica was Baptised by Fr Michael in the Ocean at Deep Cove, North Vancouver