Saint Vasilios Clergy

Reverend Anthony Tandilyan, Parish Priest, June 1, 2026

contact: Franthony@stvasilios.org

He was born (1975) in the small village of Haxpat, Armenia-- a wonderful place surrounded by mountains and valleys.  After graduating the local high school (1992), he continued his education in the Pedagogical College of Yerevan and received his bachelor’s degree in education with a dream of becoming a teacher. But life sometimes takes us places that we would never imagine.

In 1995 he was accepted to the Pedagogical Institute of Erevan when a radical change happened in his life. Instead of continuing his education in graduate school, he chose to become a member of the Armenian Orthodox Church with the hope of serving as a clergy. This required a long journey of seven years in the monastic community of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin. With God’s Grace he graduated Gevorkian seminary in the summer of 2001, after defending his thesis concerning “Bioethical problems of possible human cloning” (In this work the moral and ethical aspects of the achievements of modern biology are discussed). Read More »

Reverend Christopher Foustoukos, Presiding Priest (retiring August 2026)

Father Chris was born in Boston and was raised in Salem, MA.  He attended high school at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, MA.  Furthermore, Father is a 1988 graduate of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA.  Father Chris was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Methodios on June 10, 1989 and to the Holy Priesthood on February 18, 1990. Read More »