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OUR PATRON SAINT
St. Demetrios’ Feast Day is Celebrated Every Year on October 26.
Saint Demetrios was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ.
When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 303 A.D, he raised the Saint to the rank of Duke of Thessaly. When it was discovered that the Saint was a Christian, he was arrested and kept bound in a bath-house. While the games were under way in the city, Maximian was a spectator there.
A certain friend of his, a barbarian who was a notable wrestler, Lyaios by name, waxing haughty because of the height and strength of his body, boasted in the stadium and challenged the citizens to a contest with him. All that fought with him were defeated. Seeing this, a certain youth named Nestor, acquaintance of Demetrios’, came to the Saint in the bath-house and asked his blessing to fight Lyaios single-handed.
Receiving this blessing and sealing himself with the sign of the precious Cross, he presented himself in the stadium, and said, “O God of Demetrios, help me!” and straightway he engaged Lyaios in combat and smote him with a mortal blow to the heart, leaving the former boaster lifeless upon the earth.
Maximian was sorely grieved over this, and when he learned who was the cause of this defeat, he commanded straightway and Demetrios was pierced with lances while he was yet in the bath-house, As for Nestor, Maximian commanded that he be slain with his own sword.
COMMUNITY COUNCIL AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Community Council
The Community Council consists of the Priest, and a number of elected members fixed by the Community by-laws or by local statute according to the needs of the Community and is responsible to the Community Assembly and to the Archbishop for conducting all Community affairs in keeping with the aims and purposes, that is to proclaim the pure and undefiled Orthodox Christian Faith and to keep practice and promote Hellenic civilization (ARTICLE VII, Section 1 & ARTICLE I, Section 1, of the UCR).
Presiding Priest: Fr. Bohdan Hladio
President: Nathan Hondronichols
Vice President: Sue Zafiridis
Treasurer: Peter Kourtakis
Council Secretary: Irene Psarakis
Board Members: Stelios Karouzakis, John Kartas, Tom Kavouras, Angela de Luca Pantelis Livadiotakis, Stella Psarakis, Sophie Zafiridis-Savruk, Dimitrios Triantafilou, Nick Triantafilou, John Vergadis, Kalli Voloudakis, Kosta Zafiridis
Role of the Community Council
The Community Council has the duty of administering the Community according to the Uniform Community Regulations (ARTICLE XIII, Section 1, of the UCR).
Mission of the Community Council
The Community is headed by a canonically ordained Priest and duly appointed by the Archbishop. The Community abides and is governed by the Uniform Community Regulations, which must always conform to the Holy Canons and the Archdiocese Charter. The Community expresses the life of the Church according to the Eastern Orthodox faith and tradition, sanctifying the faithful through Divine Liturgy and the Holy Sacraments, the Decrees and Canons of the Ancient Undivided Church, as interpreted by the Practice of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (ARTICLE I, Section 2, of the UCR).
Community Secretary: Rena Georgakopoulos
Cantor: Nick Miminas
Sexton: Effie Katrakis