Press Releases

MERCER, PA -- The Staff of Camp Nazareth is looking forward to the return of our diocesan family to Camp Nazareth for the Summer Season. The kick-off to the Summer Season is Family Day which is scheduled for Sunday, June 5 this year. Diocesan Faithful and friends are cordially invited to join in the Family Day festivities Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- A special photo gallery highlighting Holy Week and Paschal celebrations throughout the diocese has been created. Read more...

NEW YORK, NY -- His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios of America will make a pastoral visit to St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on Sunday May 8, 2011 to mark the fortieth day of the Repose of + Metropolitan Nicholas. Read more...

The award-winning CBS Television Show 60 Minutes, aired a segment yesterday on Mount Athos, one of the most sacred places in Holy Orthodoxy. The video of last night's program is now available for viewing on-line. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- A photo gallery has been posted of Divine services at Christ the Saviour Cathedral of Holy Week and Pascha 2011 Read more...

I greet all of you on the bright and joyous Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lent, which was made all the more heavy by the passing of our beloved brother, and your dear father in Christ, the late Metropolitan Nicholas, now is filled with hope, the hope of the Resurrection. Read more...

The occurrences and events of our time may not seem to justify the exultation of our greeting. The natural destruction caused by seismic tremors and oceanic swells, together with the lurking devastation from possible nuclear explosion, as well as the human sacrifices resulting from military conflict and terrorist action, reveal our world to be in horrible torment and anguish from the pressure of the Read more...

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. Read more...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- A short video tribute to His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas containing photos and audio clips of His Eminence, has been released today as part of the diocesan-wide observance of the 40th Day of His Repose. Read more...

NEW YORK - The Holy Mountain Athos, the over a thousand year sanctuary of Orthodox Christian monasticism, and which is directly under the spiritual jurisdiction of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, will be featured on the CBS News program “60 Minutes”, scheduled to air on Pascha Sunday. The segment, “The Monks of Mount Athos”, will recount 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon’s journey to a remote peninsula in North Greece Read more...