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909:"Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York Headed the Rite of Nomination of Archimandrite Nicholas (Olhovsky) as Bishop Of Manhattan and All-Night Vigil on the 20 th Anniversary of the Glorification of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco"
625:. Accessed December 28, 2022. "Bishop Nicholas (Olhovsky) was born on December 17, 1974, in Trenton, NJ. He graduated from St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Parish School in Lakewood, NJ in May 1991, and in 1993, graduated from Hamilton West High School."
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Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America then endowed the blue mantle and white klobuk to him, which he donned with the aid of attending subdeacons.
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