Media Coverage of the Repose
of Metropolitan Nicholas

Attention all Archons, and Archons of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, ARCHON NEWS -- His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America noted with great sorrow the falling asleep in the Lord of Metropolitan Nicholas of Amissos, the Bishop of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the USA. Metropolitan Nicholas fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, March 13, 2011, the Sunday of Orthodoxy and the 28th anniversary of his ordination to the episcopacy. Read more...

ERIE-TIMES NEWS -- An Orthodox church in Erie has lost its ruling bishop to cancer.Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, 75, spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., died Sunday. The Johnstown-based diocese includes St. Nicholas Orthodox Church on East Avenue in Erie. Read more...

BEAVER COUNTY TIMES -- The highest-ranking official of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, who included St. John the Baptist Church in Ambridge among his parishes, died Sunday in Johnstown. Metropolitan (a title similar to archbishop) Nicholas Smisko, 75, died of cancer, according to the diocese website. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1983 and as metropolitan in 1997. Read more...

TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT --JOHNSTOWN — Friends, parishioners, clergy and members of the Johnstown community will gather today to celebrate the life of Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko. The longtime leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. died Sunday of cancer at Windber Hospice. Read more...

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JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT -- Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., was remembered Friday as a loving leader who enjoyed religious chanting and embraced other faiths. Hundreds of Johnstown faithful mingled with clerics from across the Eastern United States Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Hundreds turned out Friday morning to remember the spiritual leader of the American Carpathos-Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, at Christ The Savior Cathedral in Johnstown. (Watch Video) Read more...

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES NEWS --Johnstown, Pa., March 14, 2011 - His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, 75, spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., died March 13 after a long illness Read more...

PITTSBURGH POST- GAZETTE- It was a measure of love for their bishop that Orthodox bearded priests and teenage girls alike wept as they departed Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Johnstown with the casket of Metropolitan Nicholas. Read more...

SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE -- A community of three churches in Lackawanna County is mourning the loss of Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, spiritual leader of American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. Metropolitan Nicholas, 75, died Sunday of cancer near Johnstown, where he headed the 10,000-member diocese, The Associated Press reported Read more...

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER --Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, 75, spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., died of cancer near Johnstown, Pa., the city where he served. Metropolitan Nicholas died Sunday at the Windber Hospice, a few miles from Johnstown, where he headed the diocese that includes 10,000 members in 80 congregations nationwide. Read more...

POST-GAZETTE (PITTSBURGH) -- Metropolitan Nicholas, an Orthodox bishop whose Christian influence far outweighed the size of his American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in the United States, died Sunday of cancer. Because of his heritage and education, Metropolitan Nicholas "bridged the Slavic and Greek worlds of Orthodoxy. He was a very unifying figure," said the Rev. Mark Arey, ecumenical officer of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. Read more...

TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT -- His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, Johnstown, primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), reposed in the Lord Sunday, March 13, 2011, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born Feb. 23, 1936, to Anna (Totin) and Andrew Smisko. Read more...

ALTOONA MIRROR --JOHNSTOWN - Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, the spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., died Sunday after waging a courageous battle with cancer, the diocese said. Smisko was 75.Smisko was known locally for the ecumenical services he co-sponsored with Bishop Joseph Adamec of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown and Bishop Gregory Pile of the Allegheny Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Read more...

SCRANTON TIMES - TRIBUNE -- JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko has died of cancer near the western Pennsylvania city where he served as spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. He was 75. Read more...

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW --As a boy growing up in Perth Amboy, N.J., Nicholas R. Smisko played priest in his parents' attic, using sheets for robes, his mother's goblet for a chalice, bread for Communion, and his father's wine. "If a pet cat or dog in the neighborhood died, he would bless that dog or cat and have a funeral Mass for it," recalled his brother Michael Smisko of Waretown, N.J. "He was preparing to be a priest Read more...

TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT -- The spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. died Sunday after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko had celebrated his 75th birthday in?February at Christ the Saviour Cathedral on?Garfield Street. Read more...