Media Coverage of the Repose
of Metropolitan Nicholas

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.

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.