www.byzcath.org Forums Faith & Christian Life Parish Life & Evangelization Centennial: St. John Tha Baptist Orthodox Church, Nanticoke PA

Kudos to Rich Custer and Elizabeth Hetman for co-authoring the centennial history of St. John The Baptist Orthodox (OCA) Church in Nanticoke PA and cataloging the 15 or so home villages of the founders from both sides of the Carpathian Mountains. St. John's, founded in 1911, was the first of what would become four Eastern churches in Nanticoke (two are now closed). Holy Transfiguration Ukrainain Greek Catholic Church will celebrate its centennial in 2012. Transfiguration's founders hail from the same villages in Sanok District Galicia as St. John's. Nanticoke is also the birthplace of the Polish National Catholic Church, but that as they say, is another story.

Congratulations to and may God grant many years to Father Adam (Sexton), Rector, and to the faithful of St John the Baptist Orthodox Church!

St John's has a great website [stjohnsnanticoke.org] (which I think that I previously linked in the 'Websites Worth Seeing' thread). Father Adam, its present rector, was most gracious in allowing me to use photos from his parish website to illustrate a historical directory entry for St John Uhro-Rusyn Greek-Catholic Church, the temple's identity until 1913, when it translated to the Russian Metropolia.

Many years,

Neil