Media Coverage of the Repose
of Metropolitan Nicholas

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

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)

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

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.

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