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OCA Young Adults Join International Orthodox Gathering at SUPRASL

Seventeen young adults from the Orthodox Church in America attended the fifth annual SUPRASL Summer 2026 in Supraśl, Poland, joining about 85 participants from more than two dozen countries. The event focused on the theme “Image and Likeness: Creation and Creators,” offering workshops in poetry, music, photography, theology, culture, ethics, and vision.

From July 28–August 3, seventeen young adults from the Orthodox Church in America participated in SUPRASL Summer 2026, the fifth annual international gathering of Orthodox youth held at the Monastery of the Annunciation and the Supraśl Academy in Supraśl, Poland.

The gathering brought together some 85 participants from more than two dozen countries including Australia, Palestine, and several European countries for a week of prayer, friendship, service, and creative exploration around the theme “Image and Likeness: Creation and Creators.” The theme was chosen in connection with the 130th anniversary of the birth of Saint Sophrony of Essex and his teaching on the human person as created in the image of God and called to grow into His likeness.

The OCA encouraged its young adults to participate and made scholarship funding available for one participant from each diocese. The seventeen young adults were part of a 23-member OCA group that also included His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Fort Worth, Locum Tenens of the Diocese of the South; Archpriest Gregory and Matushka Miho Ealy of Saint Paul Orthodox Church in Dayton, OH; and their children.

“SUPRASL offers something that is difficult to replicate within our normal youth and young adult ministry,” said Archpriest Justin Patterson, Project Manager for the Departments of the OCA . “These international connections can help us cultivate the future lay and clergy leadership of our Church, while also giving our young people an experience of Orthodoxy beyond the borders of the United States.”

For Orthodox young adults from North America, SUPRASL offers a distinctive experience within the Orthodox world: international fellowship, theological and cultural education, monastic and liturgical life, practical service, and the opportunity to encounter Orthodoxy in a setting far beyond one’s own local experience.

This year’s workshops approached the theme through poetry, music, photography, theology, culture, ethics, and attentive vision. Father Gregory Ealy explored the poetic structure of Orthodox hymnography, while Matushka Miho Ealy spoke about growing up Orthodox in Japan. Zoran Matić, Serbia, introduced participants to the music and spirituality of Arvo Pärt; Georgia Gleoudi, Greece, led “PhotoVoice,” a workshop on learning to see through photography; Ioanna Knights, Greece, considered how the ways in which we see shape the ways in which we live; and Athanasios Kelpis, England, led a discussion on responsibility titled “It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault.”

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