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Rev. George P. Savas, Presiding Priest

Protopresbyter Fr. George P. Savas

Fr. George P. Savas was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He graduated Holy Cross in 1984, and is married with 3 children. Most recently, Fr. George has been the Executive Director of the Diakonia Retreat Center of the Metropolis of Atlanta. There he directed programming and worked hands-on executing several retreats and camps at the national, regional, and local levels. 

Fr. George started at the Annunciation Cathedral in Atlanta, GA 27 years ago, and since then has been an active member of the clergy in both the Metropolis of Atlanta and the Metropolis of Detroit. In every parish he became involved in the Ecumenical scene. In Charleston, SC he was elected President of the Christian Jewish Council of Greater Charleston. In Rochester, NY he served on the Planning Board of the World Council of Churches. In Detroit, MI he served as Ecumenical Officer of the Metropolis and most notably, a panel member of September 11^th faith discussions between Muslim and Christian churches. Throughout the country he has been trained as a Police Chaplain and has ministered on the scene at homicides, suicides, traffic fatalities, and other emergency situations.

In working with the young adults, Fr. George has had the honor of working campus ministry at many colleges throughout the country, including as one of the only Non-Roman Catholic groups at Notre Dame. His other youth work includes Founder and Director of numerous Parish Summer Day Camps, Co-founder of St. Timothy’s Summer Camp in Upstate New York, and has presented at Metropolis GOYA Retreats, Ionian Village, Metropolis Summer Camps, National YAL conventions, OCF events, as well as local parish youth groups of HOPE, JOY, GOYA.

Very Rev. Gregory Hutton, Archimandrite

Dn. John L. Howard, Deacon

 John  L Howard

 John was born to Victor and Elaine Howard in Charleston, WV, on August 1st, 1960. He was the youngest boy in a family of six children. He was raised into a struggling middle class family where he was taught that God, the Orthodox Church and family were of primary importance. This atmosphere of love, kindness, concern for others and hard work put him on career path toward medicine.

He is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology scoring in the top one percent in the country on the board examination and has a sub-specialty board certification in Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

He initially met his wife Lanette in 1975 and married on February 20th, 1988.They have three beautiful girls, Brooke, Amanda and Tara, ages 21, 19, and 16 respectively.

John was born and baptized into an Orthodox Christian family. He has regularly attended church and has been an active member since his youth. He served on the Parish Council for 16 years, five of which were as president of the council. He considers the purchase of the 5-acre parcel to the east of the church as the highlight of his tenure as president. He has served in the altar as the adult supervisor during his 20’s as well as for the last several years here at the Annunciation. He recently completed the St. Stephens Course of Studies in Orthodox Theology and has started work on a Master’s in Applied Orthodox Theology.