We are a congregation of both cradle Orthodox and converts to the Orthodox faith. Our cradle Orthodox have Carpatho-Rusyn, Lebanese, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Polish and other ethnic roots. We have Orthodox converts who have had a long journey to Orthodoxy over decades and others whose conversion to Orthodoxy has been shorter. Some of our congregation have come to the Orthodox church through marriage. All three of our clergy are converts to Orthodoxy.
All of our services are in English, with an occasional nod to our ethnic roots, particularly around Pascha (Easter), the Feast of Feasts.
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Holy Cross is a mission congregation of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD). There are 81 parishes in the United States and Canada, 91 priests and approximately 8,500 faithful in the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. The diocese is under the canonical protection of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Originally founded by immigrants from the Carpatho-Rusyn regions of present-day Slovakia, Poland and Western Ukraine, the diocese today is comprised of peoples of all ethnic backgrounds, many of whom are converts to the faith. A book on history of the Diocese is available in the Holy Cross bookstore.
Our Bishop/Hierarch is Metropolitan Gregory (Tatsis). His Grace, Metropolitan Gregory was consecrated to the Episcopacy on Tuesday November 27, 2012 on the feast day of St. Gregory of Nyssa at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Johnstown, PA. Johnstown, Pennsylannia is the seat of the Diocese.
The diocese is under the canonical protection of His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
