JOHNSTOWN, PA -- [Diocesan Chancery] With great joy, the Diocesan Chancery has learned that the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople at its monthly meeting on August 29, 2018 voted to elevate His Grace, Bishop Gregory to the rank of Metropolitan.

His Grace, Bishop Gregory, in announcing the decision of the Holy and Sacred Synod to the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese in a special Archpastoral Letter, expressed his gratitude in writing ... His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Holy and Sacred Synod have honored all of us. I am truly greatly humbled. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA - With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Pani Mary Kundla, the wife of the late Fr. Stephen Kundla, reposed in the Lord on Friday, August 24, 2018.

Funeral arrangements for Pani Mary are as follow: Monday August 27 - 6- 8 pm Visitation at the Bowser Funeral Home in Homer City, PA. The Panachida Service will take place at 7 PM. Tuesday August 28 - Brief service at the funeral home at 10:30 AM, followed by the Funeral Service at 11:30 AM in St. Michael Church, Clymer PA with interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana, PA. A funeral luncheon will follow at St. Michael Church. Read more...

ST AUGUSTINE, FL [Orthodox Christian Mission Center] --- There is an immediate openning for the postion of Development Director for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC). Now is a great time to join and lead the Orthodox Christian Mission Center’s development team and receive all the benefits of applying one's professional talents in an Orthodox Christian missionary based non-profit that reaches throughout the world, changing lives and saving souls. OCMC is looking for the creativity and energy that the right candidate can bring to this dynamic ministry. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA --- [Diocesan Chancery]-- The Orthodox Youth Mission Team left this morning, July 7th from Holy Trinity in Danbury, CT to participate in the Appalachian Service Project (ASP) in Trade, TN. This marks OYMT’s 8th year of doing youth mission work. For the first time, OYMT will have its own pan Orthodox center in Appalachia and the program has expanded to include youth and adult leaders from Georgia, Maryland, Alabama and New Jersey/New York. 59 youth and adult leaders in all will come together to serve our Lord by working with families in Appalachia to help make their” homes warmer, safer and drier.” OYMT is led by the Very Rev. Fr. Luke Mihaly from Holy Trinity in Danbury. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- The schedule of His Grace, Bishop Gregory of Nyssa for July and August 2018 has been released by the Diocesan Chancery. Read more...