Ordination of the Blessed Servant Paul Samaan as an Archdeacon

With great joy, we announce and invite you to the ordi­na­tion of the blessed ser­vant Paul Samaan as an Archdea­con on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 26, at St. Mau­rice Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church in Pomona.

The joy­ful day begins at 8:00am with the bap­tism of Samuel Athana­sius Samaan, son of Paul and Carol Samaan. The bap­tism will be fol­lowed by the cel­e­bra­tion of the Divine Liturgy with H.G. Bishop Ser­a­pion, dur­ing which Paul will be ordained as an Archdeacon.

St. Mau­rice Cop­tic Church address and direc­tions may be found here:
http://www.lacopts.org/parishes/st-maurice-coptic-orthodox-church

We hope you can join us for this joy­ful day.