Media Coverage of the Repose
of Metropolitan Nicholas

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.

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.

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.

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

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.