The 2026 Diocesan Charity Initiative is Operation: Buffalo – a fundraising effort to help provide urgently needed repairs to the North Tower of Saints Peter and Paul Church in Buffalo, NY. The Tower houses the bell consecrated by Saint Tikhon of Moscow in 1903.   Without these repairs, there would be more significant damage to the central dome, the exterior of the temple, and the interior ceiling, walls, and icons of the church.

To read Archbishop Michael’s letter announcing the Operation: Buffalo 2026 Charity Initiative, click here. 

To donate online, click here.

To donate by check, kindly make your check payable to the Diocese of New York and New Jersey – writing in the Memo line, “Operation Buffalo” – and forward it to the Office of the Dean of New York State: Archpriest Alexey Karlgut, SS. Peter and Paul Church, 210 Hill Avenue, Endicott, NY 13760.

Thank you for your generosity!   

ANONYMOUS - $2,000.00
Saint George Church, Buffalo, NY - $1,416.00
Victor Gadzik, North Tonawanda, NY - $1,000.00
Holy Trinity Church, East Meadow, NY - $1,000.00
St. Basil’s Russian Orthodox Church, Watervliet, NY - $500.00
Denis Kingsley, Horseheads, NY - $300.00
Saint Olympia Church, Potsdam, NY - $250.00
Cynthia Eyler, Canton, NY - $100.00
Christine Fargnoli, Paramus, NJ - $100.00
Marianne Lynch, Cherry Hill, NJ - $100.00
Alfred Soliman, Flemington, NJ - $100.00
Jerome Stone, Monroe, NJ - $100.00
Barbara Timpani, Dover, NJ - $100.00
In Loving Memory Of + Basil and + Olga Farbanish
Ronald Geleta, Ballston Lake, NY - $50.00
Protodeacon Peter and Matushka Mary Lynn Skoog, Collegeville, PA - $50.00