Parish Administration
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His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPHHis Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH was consecrated to the Holy Episcopacy on June 30, 1991 at St. Mary Cathedral in Damascus, after many years of serving as a deacon and priest. His Eminence was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1950. He completed his basic schooling at the St. John of Damascus and al-Assiyeh schools in Damascus and then at Our Lady of Balamand Monastery in Koura, Lebanon. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Lebanese University in Beirut and then earned his Master of Theology (M.Th.) with special studies in music and languages from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from St. Tikhon Orthodox Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania in May, 2010. Read more...
His Grace Bishop THOMASHis Grace the Right Reverend Thomas (Joseph), Ed.D., is an auxiliary bishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, serving in the Diocese of Oakland, Charleston and the Mid-Atlantic. Of Arab-American heritage, Thomas Joseph was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1953. He attended John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, graduating in 1970. He went on to college at William Paterson College, graduating in 1974. After college, he worked in the Department of Community Improvements in Paterson, then served as a teacher for the Paterson Board of Education. When the Antiochian Village camp opened in the late 1970s, he was recruited by Fr. John Namie to serve as one of the original camp counselors from 1979 to 1982. Read more...
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Priest
Very Rev. Peter Pier - Email
Deacons
Protodeacon John Shumski - Email
Deacon Jerome Atherholt - Email
Deacon David Hyatt (Pastoral Assistant & Parish Administrator) - Email
Deacon Jerome Atherholt - Email
Deacon David Hyatt (Pastoral Assistant & Parish Administrator) - Email
Subdeacons
Subdeacon Bartholomew Basarab
Subdeacon Jason Flowers
Subdeacon Michael Buleza
Subdeacon Jason Flowers
Subdeacon Michael Buleza