We are a community of Orthodox Christians struggling to 'work out our own salvation with fear and trembling' (Philippians 2:12). We are Greeks, Cypriots and non-Greeks; American converts to the Orthodox Christian faith and their children; immigrants, children and grandchildren of immigrants. II Thessalonians 2:15) of the ancient, apostolic churches of the eastern Mediterranean evangelized by the A
postles in the first century AD, as documented in the New Testament book of The Acts of the Apostles. We worship in both Greek and English:
• Greek (the ancient world's lingua franca), to preserve and celebrate the language of the Septuagint Old Testament and the New Testament, the Church’s Ecumenical Councils and many of her theologians and saints, as well as the immigrant founders of this parish; and
• English (the lingua franca of this parish, Stroudsburg, the diverse peoples of North America and the world today), in obedience to the biblical commands to “pray with understanding” and “teach all nations” (1 Corinthians 14:15, Matthew 28:19). Our parish was founded in 1979 and dedicated to the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. We are under the authority of our bishop, His Eminence, Metropolitan Maximos (Aghiorgoussis) of Pittsburgh. Our diocese, the Metropolis of Pittsburgh, is a part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which is a provincial synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the modern day city of Istanbul, Turkey.
