Br. Oleg, CJD, takes vows in Slovakia.

Currently, Russia is in desperate need of more religious vocations, both native as well as foreign! A very important priority in our mission effort has been to seek out persons who might be called to the priesthood or religious life as ordained priests, permanent deacons, or as professed sisters or brothers to labor in the Russian Far East.

As the Catholic Church in Russia matures, there will inevitably be more native Russians who will answer the call to serve God in some capacity in full-time ministry. To assist in this process, though, what is first needed is European and American clergy to answer God's call to labor as missioners in what is truly the last great mission frontier of the world, Siberia.

To this end, the American priests at Vladivostok have begun an order of canons regular, the Canons Regular of Jesus the Lord.

		Ordination of Deacon Peregudov.
		Brother Oleg’s mother, Raisa Nikolaevna Yelchaninova, Brother Oleg, and Fr Myron after Brother Oleg’s first service as a deacon, Sunday Mass on June 24, 2007 in the seminary chapel in Kosice.

If you feel that you might be called to be a priest, brother, sister, or lay worker in the Russian Far East, please contact one of our missioner priests in Russia via electronic mail or please feel free to contact our mission office with any questions or comments that you might have.

Read Fr. Myron's Vocation Interest Letters:

"Fused life" as an ideal for canons?

Nobility of obedience

A new private association of missionary sisters, the Sisters in Jesus the Lord, is forming to assist Fr. Myron and Fr. Dan in ministering to the needs of the Catholics in Russia. The group is being formed under the direction of Sr. Julia Kubista. To go to the Sisters' website, click here.