JOHNSTOWN, PA -- Despite a significant winter snowstorm, a record number of Diocesan Readers, Subdeacons and Deacons have gathered in Johnstown, this weekend (Dec 18-20, 2009) for the Annual Readers and Deacons Retreat hosted by Christ the Saviour Seminary and Cathedral.

I wish to convey to you, my deepest and most heartfelt consolation as well as those of the Holy Eparchial Synod and the clergy and faithful of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas has announced today, that plans are underway for the 24th Annual Know Your Faith Diocesan Educational Conference which will take place on Saturday September 25, 2010 at Camp Nazareth.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro, Diocesan Chancellor has announced that the funeral arrangements for His Eminence, +Metropolitan Nicholas have been finalized

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- The Diocesan Chancery has been informed today, by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, that His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro, Diocesan Chancellor has announced that the funeral services for His Eminence, +Metropolitan Nicholas at Christ the Saviour Cathedral will be carried live via the internet.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Apostolate for Information Technology] Changes to the live broadcast schedules for Divine Liturgy at Christ the Saviour Cathedral and Funeral Services for Metropolitan Nicholas have just been announced.

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- Very Rev. Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro, Diocesan Chancellor, offered the Panachida Service today following the Holy Thursday Vesperal Liturgy at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in remembrance of the Fortieth Day of Repose of +Metropolitan Nicholas.

On this the one year observance of the falling asleep in the Lord of the ever-memorable and thrice-blessed late Metropolitan Nicholas of Amissos, I convey to all the beloved faithful of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church my deepest and heartfelt condolences. Even the passing of a full year does little to soothe the feelings of loss and bereavement, yet even as we prepare to mark his passing this coming Sunday, March 18th, we know that the beloved Metropolitan now stands before the throne of God, loosed of the weaknesses and infirmities of the human existence, and replete with the joys and the fruits of the Spirit.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that + Rev. Fr. John Cmur , age 90,  reposed in the Lord peacefully on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ. 

Fr. John was born and raised in Dunmore, PA. He married his wife, Mary, in 1954 and moved to Brick, NJ to raise their family. He retired to Whiting in the early ‘90’s.

Fr. John worked for many years as a plant manager for Orgo-Thermit, Inc. metal manufacturing in Manchester Township and was a member of the local Rotary Club