His Eminence Archbishop Peter

His Eminence Archbishop Peter of the Chicago and Mid-American Diocese, departed to the Lord on the 8th of November, the feast day of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica on the day of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everlasting memory! Archbishop Peter (in the world, Paul A. Loukianoff) was born in San Francisco in 1948, of Don Cossack ancestry. His family had lived in China before moving to San Francisco in the 1940's. Archbishop Peter was an altar boy at the San Francisco cathedral to Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) and close to St. John (Maximovitch), with whom he served the last 3 years prior to St. John's repose. The future Bishop Peter studied at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY, and graduated in the Class of 1971: then at Norwich University, VT, and Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He later taught at the seminary in Jordanville, was professed a monk and ordained there. He served as the Inspector of the seminary, and as head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. In 2002, after Archbishop Alypy's accident, he was sent to Chicago as Administrator of the Diocese. On July 12, 2003, at the request of Archbishop Alypy, he was consecrated Bishop of Cleveland and Administrator of the Diocese of Chicago and Detroit (later renamed the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America). At the Divine Liturgy commemorating the 50th anniversary of the blessed repose of the Holy Hierarch John of Shanghai & San Francisco on Saturday, July 2, 2016, His Grace Bishop Peter was commemorated for the first time as Archbishop and given the title of “Chicago & Mid-America”. Memorial service at the coffin of Archbishop Peter, Friday, November 15, 2024, 6 p.m. at Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in Des Plaines, IL. Divine Liturgy and funeral Saturday, November 16, 2024 8 a.m. at Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral. A memorial trapeza luncheon will follow at the cathedral hall. The casket will then be transported to Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, will officiate at Divine Liturgy at Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral on November 16-17, after which he will depart for Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville. Arrangements entrusted to Muzyka & Son Funeral Home, 5776 W. Lawrence Ave. Chicago. For more information, please call (773)545-3800.

His Eminence Archbishop Peter

August 9, 1948 - November 8, 2024