JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Pani Eleanor Polanichka, the wife of Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael Polanichka, reposed in the Lord on Sunday Nov 21, 2021. 

Pani Eleanor was born May 10, 1941, in Nesquehoning, Pa., to George Sr. and Bertha (Medinci) Hazuda. She graduated from Nesquehoning High School in 1959. On June 11, 1960 she married the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael Polanichka at St. John's Orthodox Church in Nesquehoning and they just celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. She and Proto. Michael served in parishes in Bayonne and Rahway, N.J., and moved to Sharon in October 1972. She was the mother to the parish of St. John's Orthodox Church, Sharon/Hermitage. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- The schedule of His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa for November 2021 has been released by the Diocesan Chancery. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that + Very Rev. Protopresbyter Lawrence  Barriger reposed in the Lord this afternoon,  Oct 2, 2021 at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia.

Born on March 2, 1953 in Binghamton, NY, he was the son of the late  Robert and  Josephine (Specik) Barriger.  He graduated in 1976  from Christ the Saviour Seminary with the Bachelor of Theology Degree; he also held a B.A. Degree in Classical Languages from St. Peters College, and a Masters Degree in Religious Education from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Fr. Lawrence was ordained to the Priesthood on August 28, 1976 by Bishop John R. Martin and served parishes in Manville, NJ, Wilpen, PA, Latrobe, PA and St. Michael Church in Freeland, PA from 1987 until his retirement in 2020. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- The schedule of His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa for October 2021 has been released by the Diocesan Chancery. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA --[Diocesan Chancery] --Our Diocese is pleased to announce its next 3 Parenting Workshops in its Series of Parenting Workshops entitled “Raising Believing Children”.  The next 3 Workshops will be hosted by:

St. Michael’s Church, Binghamton, NY – Saturday, September 25, 2021

St. John’s Church, East Pittsburgh, PA – Saturday, October 16, 2021

Holy Resurrection Church in Potomac, MD on Saturday, November 6, 2021 

The Workshops are designed to help parents learn more about the “craft” of parenting and help them raise their children in the Faith.  Read more...