Repose of Protopresbyter Valery Lukyanov, the ROCOR oldest priest

On May 25 reposed Protopresbyter Valery Lukyanov, the ROCOR oldest priest.  Father Valery was born in China in 1927. Because of the war, he was sent to a refugee camp in the Philippines, and arrived in the US in 1950. He was the last to be ordained to the diaconate by Holy Hierarch John of Shanghai, in 1963. The ROCOR Eastern American Diocese posted about his long life, his studies,