Press Releases
2023
Schedule of His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory For February - March 2023
JOHNSTOWN, PA -- [Diocesan Chancery] The schedule of His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Nyssa for February and March 2023 has been released by the Diocesan Chancery and is as follows: Read more...
ACRY To Sponsor Diocesan Student's Real Break Trip
JOHNSTOWN, PA – [National ACRY] – The National ACRY is pleased to announce the start of its “Food for All” campaign which will run in conjunction with the annual stewardship campaign (December 2nd through February 21 st ). The goal of this program is for a concerted effort within our communities across all ACRY chapters, both Jr. and Sr., as well as diocesan churches, who may not have an ACRY chapter, to provide food assistance within our communities in ways both big and small. In addition, we wish to collect data on our efforts so it can be shared with everyone across the ACRY and the diocese Read more...
Eternal Memory: +Archon Michael Kundrat
JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Archon +Michael Kundrat fell asleep in the Lord on Saturday December 31, 2022.
Michael Kundrat, ‘Mike’, almost 95 years of age, reposed in the Lord on December 31, 2022. He was born to Michael and Helena (nee Gajdos) Ivanco-Kundrat in Ambridge, PA on February 5, 1928.
Alex was born on October 30, 1936 in Endicott, New York he was the son of the late Alex and Ellen (nee Hill) Breno.
He served in the United States Army and then worked for the United States Naval Audit Service for 30 years.
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Archpastoral Letter for the Nativity 2022/2023
As we celebrate this joyous Feast of the Nativity in the flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ, I wish to share with you one of my favorite Christmas homilies from the Church Fathers concerning this day. St. John Chrysostom. spoke on the Incarnation with these words:
I behold a new and wondrous mystery! My ears resound to the shepherd's song, piping no soft melody, but loudly chanting a heavenly hymn! Read more...
Eternal Memory: + Pani Dorothy Hutnyan
JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Pani Dorothy Hutnyan, the wife of the late Protopresbyter George Hutnyan reposed in the Lord on Friday December 23, 2022 at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital surrounded by her family.
Dorothy was born August 8, 1932, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a daughter of the late Charles and Eva Martyak Gost, and came to the Youngstown area in 1955. Read more...