To His Eminence,
Metropolitan PHILIP Saliba

You said in Detroit in 1987
that if you had to receive
the Evangelical Orthodox into
the Archdiocese again, you would
do it a million times.

On behalf of us all, we'd
say Yes again, a million times!
God grant youmany years.

"Not in your lifetime, not in my lifetime, have we ever witnessed such a mass conversion to holy Orthodoxy," announced Metropolitan Philip Saliba as he began his sermon at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles that February morning in 1987.