EASTERN AMERICAN DIOCESE: October 24, 2016
Protopriest Andrei Semyanko Reposes in the Lord

On Friday, October 21, 2016, at the age of 89, Protopriest Andrei Semyanko, former Rector of

former rector of Holy Presentation Church in Stratford, CT) reposed in the Lord after several years of failing health. He was 89 years old.

Born in Poltava in 1927, the future Fr. Andrei was the son of Ivan and Eugenia Semyanko. He received his education at Lomonosov Gymnasium. After immigrating to America, Andrei was tonsured a reader and ordained a subdeacon by Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko; +1960) and ordained a deacon in the same year by Archbishop Averky (Taushev; +1976). He graduated from Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in 1961. In 1965, Fr. Andrei was ordained a priest by Archbishop Averky, and served as a parish priest in Protection of the Mother of God Church in Rochester, NY until 1971, when he was assigned as rector of Holy Presentation Church in Stratford, which obedience he fulfilled until July of this year.

In 2010, the ROCOR Synod of Bishops awarded Fr Andrei the distinguished honor of wearing the second pectoral cross.

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