With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Alexios, on behalf of the Metropolis Finance Committee, Mike Missios has shared the 2022 Archdiocese Total Commitment Allocation System with all Parish Clergy, P.C. President and Treasurers, and Audit Chairs. Click to learn more.

As we prepare for this season of new beginnings, the purpose of this letter is to consider the Metropolis’s safety practices for continuing to serve you, the faithful clergy and laity, even amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. To read the rest of His Eminence's letter and review the Metropolis protocols, please click here.

In recognition of the Feast of the Nativity, below can be found the Christmas Proclamation of His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I, in English, and in Greek. 

Everyone is invited to join the Metropolis of Atlanta's 12 Days of Christmas! Families will receive daily videos and family friendly activities directly to their inbox starting on Christmas Eve, one of our two bonus days. If you do not receive the youth emails already, SIGN UP TODAY!

Ahead of the coming Thanksgiving holiday, please click here to read His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros's commemorative encyclical.

Last Thursday evening, in celebration of St. John Chrysostom, a celebratory Liturgy was held at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta, GA.

At the request of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, I ask that his encyclical to be placed in your parish bulletins, and if possible, read for the edification of our parishioners on the observance of the newly inaugurated National Philoptochos Sunday, November 15th.

For those parishes who were asked by Metropolitan Alexios to conduct Fall Parish Council Elections, as well as for those parishes that made special requests for Him to conduct them, all election forms are available online. Click to view and download.

His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta expresses his saddness at the falling asleep of Metropolitan Maximos, formerly of Pittsburgh, who he remembers fondly as "a great theologian". Click here for the full Archdiocesan press release

On behalf of His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios, I am inviting you to a Metropolis Town Hall Webinar to inform you regarding 2020 Archdiocese Covid-19 PPP Sharing Program & 2021 Clergy Pension Benefits Funding. It will be Thursday, November 5, 2020, from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST. Each Parish Priest, Parish Council President, and Parish Council Treasurer are asked to participate. Preregistration is required (see below).

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, wanting to strengthen the role of the largest Eparchy of the Mother Church with a new vision and a new Charter suitable for the evolving and changing modern pastoral needs of American society, decided to place the current Charter (2003) of the Holy Archdiocese of America into abeyance.