Sts Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Institute
9 Nov 24: Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America Reposes in the Lord
On Friday, November 8, 2024, the feast day of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, His Eminence Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America died suddenly.
Archbishop Peter (in the world, Paul A. Loukianoff) was born in San Francisco in 1948, of Don Cossack ancestry. His family had lived in China before moving to San Francisco in the 1940’s. Archbishop Peter was an altar boy at the San Francisco cathedral to Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) and close to St. John (Maximovitch), with whom he served the last 3 years prior to St. John’s repose. (more…)