Making Canon Sills an Archpriest

Bestowal
of
Full Eastern Rite Faculties
upon the

Very Reverend Canon Priest

Perry R. Sills

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(Archbishop Pyman's
Seal is here)

THE EVANGELICAL ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA

Hussite Orthodox - Eastern and Western Catholic Rites - Evangelical Orthodox Catholic

Saint Monica's Pro-Cathedral

10410 North Snelling Road
Cupertino, California 95014
"OFFICIAL DOCUMENT"
+ BESTOWAL OF FULL EASTERN RITE FACULTIES +

Chancery Office
Reply to:

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: AMEN.

WITNESS ALL MEN:

That, WE, Archbishop Frederick, Metropolitan of ALL AMERICAN and EUROPE, did during the Divine Liturgy of our Father Among the Saints, JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, celebrated by Our Belove Brother, John, Bishop of the Hussite Orthodox church, and of the Evangelical Orthodox Church (our worthy and beloved trusted Auxiliary), did on the sixth Sunday after the Holy Spirit, the day of the Great Martyr among Priests, Sacmar Athenogen, in the year of our Lord 1973, in the Pro-Cathedral Church of Saint Monica, City of Cupertino, State of California; THAT WE DID: canonically ELEVATE, according to the Rite and ORDER of the:

*** HOLY EASTERN ORTHODOX CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH ***

Our, beloved brother, The Reverend Father Joseph Benedict (Perry (Sills), Canon Priest of Saint Monica, and a worthy and Honorable PRIEST of Our JURISDICTION, to the Canonical rank of:

*** MITERED ARCHPRIEST ***

with authority to Administer, in all the ordinances, pertaining to his office and Calling.

In Testimony, whereof, We have, hereunto Affix OUR official seal and signature, in the City of Cupertino, State of California, this the 29th/16th/day of JULY, in the year of Our Lord 1973.

The seal of the
Evangelical Orthodox
Catholic in America
is here + Metropolitan Frederick (L. Pyman), C.S.A., of the:
Hussite Orthodox - Evangelical Orthodox Catholic Church of
ALL AMERICA and EUROPE

+ John, (Polivka), Th.D., Bishop of the Hussite Orthodox -
Evangelical Orthodox Catholic Church, Auxiliary to the Metropolitan
for ALL AMERICA and EUROPE

Rev'd Father Herbert Gregory Smith, Archdeacon; of the
Hussite Orthodox - Evangelical Orthodox Catholic Church.

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