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Who we are, our week, our clergy and Council, and our history.

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The cross at St. George on Holy Friday, surrounded by flowers

Who We Are

As a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, St. George continues to serve the needs of Orthodox Christians not only of Middle Eastern descent but from all backgrounds.

Today, our parish community is a wonderfully diverse family which exists to bring glory to the Name of Christ and to share Orthodox Christianity with everyone who would like to learn more about the Apostolic Faith of the Early Church.

The parish of St. George belongs to the family of Christian communities who are the direct descendants of the Church of Antioch, the place where the followers of Christ were first called “Christians” (Acts 11:26).

St. George is a warm and welcoming place. Please come and worship with us!

Our Week

Six Services a Week

Orthros and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, Great Vespers on Saturday evening, a Paraklesis to our patron on Monday, and Vespers on Wednesday and Friday.

The full schedule

Fellowship

Please join us for coffee and a meal after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday.

What to expect

The Year, Not Just the Week

Four fasting seasons, the Great Feasts, and Holy Week.

The fasting seasons

Clergy and Servers

Our priest, our chanters, and the Parish Council.

Our hierarchs

St. George Orthodox Christian Church is the oldest of the fifty parishes of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America, part of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and the Patriarchate of the Church of Antioch. We are under the spiritual leadership of Metropolitan Saba, Archbishop of New York and North America.

**His Eminence Metropolitan Saba**Archbishop of New York and North America

Archimandrite Calinic Berger — **Archimandrite Calinic (Berger)**Archiepiscopal Vicar, Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America

Clergy

Fr. Christopher Morris

Priest

Originally hailing from central Kansas, Father Christopher has served as the pastor of Saint George since 2006.

Chanters

Levi Hadley

Protopsaltis

Ment Morris

Lampadarios

Parish Council

Steve Wolf

Chairman

Brandon Cone

Vice Chairman

Mike Maloley

Treasurer

Gage Jaeger

Secretary

Charity Miller

Member

Matthew Jorgensen

Member

Grant Guikema

Member

Ment Morris

Member

The icon shows our founders, Saint Raphael of Brooklyn and Father Nicola Yanney, holding our parish.

Our history

This Parish Is as Old as Orthodoxy in This Part of the Country

St. George was formed in 1903, and our first priest was the first man St. Raphael of Brooklyn ever ordained. Father Nicola Yanney farmed a homestead in Valley Township, was widowed at twenty-nine, and spent the next fourteen years traveling to Orthodox families scattered from the Canadian border to the Mexican one. More than a hundred communities and over nine hundred baptisms. He died of influenza in 1918, caught visiting the sick of this parish.

Families in this congregation are descended from the people he served.

Read the story of Father Nicola Yanney

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