About the Translator
Deacon Father Ioan Comanescu, Romanian by birth, is an architect in Northern California. He is a clergyman in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
About the Prefacer
The Most Reverend Vlasie is the President of the Holy Synod of the True (Old Calendar) Orthodox Church of Romania. His Eminence received his theological education and monastic training at the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration in Slătioara, Romania. In 1992, he was awarded the Licentiate in Orthodox Theological Studies *honoris causa by the Directors and Examiners of the C.T.O.S.