St. Vasilios

St. Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church

Priests Who Have Served Our Parish

Priests Who Have Served Our Parish

Rev. George Sakellarios1906
Rev. Ambrose Paraskakis1907
Rev. Cyril Papagregoriou1908; 1919-1920
Rev. Constantine Harmandas1909
Rev. Vasilios Avramopoulos1910
Rev. John Papadopoulos1911
Rev. Constantine Garoufalis1912; 1918
Rev. Evangelos Zaharas1913
Rev. Gregory Pantazones1914
Rev. Constantine Kostopoulos1915
Rev. Emelianos Georgoulis1916-1917
Rev. Savas Josephides1921
Rev. Constantine Kakogianis1922-1923; 1944
Rev. Peter Stasinopoulos1924-1925
Rev. Kyriakos Kyriakoy1925-1926
Rev. George Papagianopoulos1927
Rev. Constantine Kallinikos1927
Rev. Nicholas Triantafillou1928
Rev. Vasilios Daskalakis1929
Rev. John Tsapatsares1929
Rev. Nicholas Diamantopoulos1930
Rev. George Economides1930-1943
Rev. Nicholas Paleologos1945-1949
Rev. Constantine Mager1949-1952
Rev. Alexander Xanthakis (Pastor)1952-1961
Rev. George Economou (Assistant)1953
Rev. John Romanides (Assistant)1954-1957
Rev. Harry Magoulias (Assistant)1958-1960
Rev. Stanley Harakas (Pastor)1961-1967
Rev. Nicholas Triantafilou (Assistant)1963-1965
Rev. Nicholas Nikolopoulos (Assistant)1965-1966
Rev. George Tsoukalas (Assistant)1966-1967
Rev. Andrew Demotses (Pastor)1967-
Rev. Athanasios Chamberas (Assistant)1967-1968
Rev. Athanasios Demas (Assistant)1969-1970
Rev. Theodore Stavrou (Assistant)1972
Rev. Douglas Papulis (Assistant)1984-1986
Rev. George Christulides (Assistant)1986-1989
Rev. Constantine Terss (Assistant)1990-1992
Rev. Harry Providakes (Assistant)1993-2004
Rev. Costin Popescu (Assistant)2004-

During the period 1971-1984, the following priests served our parish as pastoral assistants at the direction of the diocesan bishop, but without a formal archdiocesan appointment (diorismos):

Addendum

In 1926, the political struggle in Greece between the royalists and the republicans, as well as the ecclesiastical controversy over the old and new church calendars, led to a split in the community. A dissident group of republican/new calendarists established a new parish dedicated to the Holy Transfiguration. The priests who served this parish were:

In 1930, the parishes voted to re-unite, and the Rev. George Economides, then pastor of Holy Transfiguration, was appointed pastor of the newly unified parish of St. Vasilios.

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