The Ascension of The Lord Monastery

The monastic community of the Holy Ascension Monastery is in the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America (OCA) under the omophorion of His Eminence Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit.  It was established on the day when the Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of the Holy Hierarch Policarp of Smyrna—February 23, 2001.  This date is significant for the Romanian Episcopate because St. Policarp was the patron saint of the first Romanian Orthodox bishop in North America, His Grace B...