Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

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Saint John’s community sits at the base of the Chugach mountains in Eagle River, Alaska. It is a parish in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
We invite you to join us in our journey to know God and to serve our neighbors within the tradition of Orthodox Christianity.
Sunday Divine Liturgy - 10:00am
Saturday Vespers - 7:15pm

Parish Happenings

Community Highlight

Orthodox and Evangelical Conference
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A conference was held at Beach Lake Cabin on Sep 26, 27 to encourage dialogue between Orthodox and Evangelical leaders. Fr. Marc presented an overview of how one becomes an Orthodox Christian, from enrollment as a catechumen through the sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation. Joel Stamoolis from Wasilla Bible Church responded with an explanation of the Baptism service at his church. About 25 people attended, including Mark Oxbrow from England, representing the Lausanne Orthodox Initiative. The other major topic was the Council of Nicaea and its Creed as a unifying statement of faith. This was the first conference in what is hoped to be an annual series in memory of Fr. Michael Oleksa.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

At the fall “by the envy of the devil death entered the world.” When this happened, human beings died and corruption prevailed against them. What was God to do? This is where love comes in, a love which the evil one could not anticipate. Athanasius writes, “In no other way could the corruption of humans be undone except by the Word of God Himself offering the temple of His own body as a substitute for all.”” Dn. Joseph Ray, September 7, 2025-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

Metropolitan John Zizioulas avoided the danger of our having our gas fixed on a past able to make us prisoners, prisoners above all of old errors, of failed attempts, through accumulating negative junk, through encouraging the implanting of mistrust. We all suffer the negativity of looking backwards, and the sincere search for the unity of all Christians suffers from this in a particular way. The value of our traditions is to open up the path, and if instead they close it, if they hold us back, that means that we ar mistaken in the way we interpret them, prisoners of fear, attached to our sense of security, with the risk of transforming faith into ideology and mummifying the truth that in Christ is always life and way (John 14:6), path of peace, bread of communion, source of unity. - Pope Francis in the Forward to Met. John Zizioulas's book, 'Remembering the Future.'

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