Help to Find a True Orthodox Priest

Email Correspondence

Email  Time:  Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:19:27 -0500 to: Joanna from: potential catechumen who had been searching for many months many discouraging dead ends ...please help me find a true Orthodox priest...

Dear potential catechumen, Forgive me for not remembering you. The only true Churches in America are under ROCOR Metropolitan Agafangel and GOC Metropolitan Demetrius There is only one ROCOR priest with a parish.  Fr. Andrew Frick in Fairfax, Virginia. https://holyascension.us/index.html We also have a travelling priest without a parish who visits places: Fr. Daniel Meschter living in Pennsylvania.  You might be able to arrange to meet when/where he is serving.  I'm not sure of his current contact information.  Try this: <imeschter@csc.com>, The I in imeschter is for Irene, his matushka's name is Irene, and it is her email address.  The way to address her is "Mat. Irene" or "Matushka Irene." The GOC has a fairly decent scattering of parishes in America and a monastery in New York.  The GOC in America is divided into 2 diocese, east and west.  I very strongly recommend anyone to avoid the west diocese because the bishop there is unfit for ecclesiastical authority.  Not everyone is of that opinion — there are some who think Etna is the cat's meow.  But to me it appears like a cult; and one proof of that cultishness is that there is an east coast GOC parish that wills not to join the east diocese and remains under Etna. The GOC directory is here: http://hotca.org/directory Nobody finds the Church without heavenly help, even if they physically come to the very door.  So ask heaven for help.  Already it is good you have been steered away from Gregory of Colorado. https://startingontheroyalpath.blogspot.com/2022/03/cult-warning.html Although he is very intelligent and his publications are tops.  The Great Synaxartistes is the best and most economical (in the long run) Lives Of Saints available in English. Let me know what you find, if you will, -- I'd be interested. In Christ, Joanna p.s. Fr. Daniel often lately visits Annunciation parish in Liberty, Tennessee for Pascha -- several days in a row of services.  With lots of time in between for personal discussions. If you arrange to visit then, let me invite you, and please consider, staying with me as my guest.  My house is just a few miles (4 or 6) from the church.  Let me know asap. I have 2 empty bedrooms now, and there is floor space for sleeping bags in the living room.  Otherwise, there is a hotel about 20 miles away in Woodbury, the Cannon Inn.