JOHNSTOWN, PA [Diocesan Chancery] -- With the blessing of Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa, the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese will be hosting a Diocesan Day of Prayer on Thursday December 10. This will consist of Molebens for the Nativity Fast being offered continuously each half-hour from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. in 24 Diocesan Parishes with special intentions to comfort and strengthen the world spiritually and physically in this time of the Pandemic. These will be able to participated in virtually at http://www.facebook.com/acroddiocese or here on the Diocesan website, Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that  Mary Ann Maydak,  the mother of Pani  Sharon Holowaty, reposed in the Lord on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the age of 80.   

Mary Ann,  the daughter of the late John and Mary Ann Jovan (Bolha) was born on October 1, 1940 in Johnstown, PA. She was preceded in death by her late husband, Andrew Maydak and her brother, John and sisters, Gloria and Shirley Jovan. Survived by her daughters Sharon (Maydak) Holowaty married to Rev. Fr.Lev Holowaty and grandson Andrew Jordan (AJ) living in Schererville, IN Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- With gratitude to Almighty God, the clergy and the faithful of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese extend their heartfelt congratulations and best wishes, today - November 27, 2020 to His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa on the eighth anniversary of his Consecration and Enthronement as Ruling Diocesan Bishop. Today is also His Eminence's Name's Day, St Gregory Palamas, as celebrated on the Julian Calendar. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- It is proper and just to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to thank You, to worship You in every place of Your kingdom, for You are God, ineffable, inconceivable, invisible, incomprehensible, ever existing yet ever the same, You and Your only-begotten Son and Your Holy Spirit. You brought us out of non-existence into being and, when we had fallen, You raised us up again, and left nothing undone to lead us to heaven and to bestow upon us Your future kingdom. For all this we give thanks to You and to Your only-begotten Son and Your Holy Spirit, for all that we know and do not know Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA [Diocesan Chancery] -- Our Diocese is pleased to announce its next Parenting Workshop in its Series of Parenting Workshops entitled “Raising Believing Children”.  The next Workshop will be hosted online on Saturday, December 5th from 10am-12:30pm and will feature presentations by His Eminence Metropolitan Gregory and Fr. Stephen Loposky.  The schedule will also include time for small group discussions and Questions and Answer sessions.  Our Diocese has sponsored several of these Workshops around the Diocese and each has been a great experience for our parents.  Several Workshops had been scheduled around the Diocese for Fall 2020, but were postponed because of our current circumstances.  This Parenting Workshop will bring together faithful from around the entire Diocese.  Read more...