The Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, Greek Orthodox Church in Greenville, South Carolina

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Visitor Information
Contact, maps, services, virtual tour

Summer Events

Basketball Camp
July 26-30th from 9 am to 12 pm for 5 to 9 year olds and 1 pm to 4 pm for 10 to 13 year olds. If you are interested, please contact Jenna Sinclair at jktheodore@aol.com or 879-0494.

Fall Programs
Sunday School: Registration for Sunday School will be held on the following Sundays:
August 22, August 29, September 5. The first day of Sunday School is September 12.
Greek School: Saturday 14th of August, Greek School pool party. Thursday 19th of August, registration. Tuesday 24th of August, prayer service will be held for Greek School teachers, students, and parents. Wednesday 25th of August, classes begin.
Monday Night Discussion Group: We will begin on September 13th at 6:00pm in the lower level of the Cathedral. Our topic for this fall will be "Wounded by Love". A discussion of the beautiful book on the teachings and life of Elder Porphyrios on the Way of Love.
Foundations of Faith: A twelve week series on the traditional teaching of the Early Church. This course will discuss Creation, Original Sin, Salvation and Theosis, Tradition and history of the Bible, Mother of God the Theotokos, Use of Icons, Saints, and the Church as the healing Body of Christ through the Sacraments, Orthodox Christian way of life, daily Prayer and regular Fasting. Join us to explore the foundations of the Christian Faith as taught by the Apostles and the Early Church Fathers. Class meets on Tuesday evenings beginning September 14th from 6:00pm to 7:30pm beginning on January 20th in the lower level of the Cathedral. Call 233-8531 to enroll.

Special Feature

Biblical Pen Drawings
These beautiful pen drawings we done by the late Philip Papadis, a Cathedral Sunday School teacher. They were done in his early years and are wonderful.

Living the Orthodox Christian Faith

 • Prayer - Come closer to God through Daily Prayer, the Jesus prayer and more. One of the     most comprehensive online sources on Orthodox Prayer.
 • Fasting - Why fast and guidelines

 • Sacraments and Special Services -
    Baptism, Chrismation, Holy Communion, Confession, Unction, Matrimony, Ordination,
    Funeral and more.

 • Divine Liturgy - NEW! Comprehensive information on the Divine Liturgy and Holy
                                       Communion (Presanctified Liturgy).

 • Special Services: Paraclesis Service, Proskomide, Akathist Hymn
 • Liturgical Texts - Paraklitiki (Oktoichos), Triodion, Pentecostarion, Menaion, Horologion,
    Euchologion, Lectionary
     The translations are, in the main, based on the Greek books published by the Apostoliki Diakonia in Athens, which are,
     for the most part, a reprint of the editions published by Vartholomaios of Koutloumousiou in the early nineteenth century,
     themselves derived almost unchanged from the long series of printed editions since the sixteenth century.
 • Bible Study - Guidelines for study and references.
 • Articles, Sacred Music, Icon Gallery, Angels, Saints
 • Orthodox Teachings on the End Times
 • Monastic Life - Paracletos Monastery, Mount Athos and more
 • Icons: Cathedral Icons, Collections, Articles, Audio/visual, Festival Presentations
 • Feasts of the Virgin Mary the Theotokos - Learn about the
    incredible life of the Virgin Mary the Theotokos thru the major
    feasts of the Church dedicated to Her.
 • Feast of Pentecost - The celebration of the Holy Spirit.
    Why is this feast so important?
 • Study Links - Comprehensive links for study of the Orthodox Faith, online magazines and     Journals, and sources for Books, icons and religious items.

 • An Online Catechism - Orthodox Way of Life - A complete online manual on the dogma and     teachings of the Church that underlie the Orthodox way of life that prepare us to receive     God's grace for our Union with Him.

Foundations of Orthodox Faith - a 12 week class given twice a year at the Saint George Cathedral. Email or call 864-233-8531 for information.

What's New

Orthodox Spirituality - a commentary on the book of the same name by Fr. Dimitru Staniloae by. Dn Charles Joiner

HDF Video - Troupe Adelphia
View their award winning performance in Orlando.
We are very proud of our dancers and thank God for the gifts he gave them and the effort they put in to use them. If you received your Orthodox Observer, the group saying a prayer is our kids.

Updated pages on Confession and Fasting

Divine Liturgy - NEW!

Icon - Panagia Soumela

• The Incredible story

New Section - Feasts of the Theotokos

• Feasts of the Theotokos
Explore the life of the Virgin Mary.

New Section - Angels
• Angels
Discover the Orthodox teachings about Angels

New Section - Saints

• Saints
Learn why we pray to the saints. See excellent video on what the Orthodox Church believes about Saints.

• Many new articles on Prayer

only search Saint George Website

• Find Greek Name Days

New Photo Galleries

Vacation Church School Photos: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, More Day 5

Photos From Greek Festival by Tony Thermos
Tireless Feet: The Dancers
Tireless Hands: All the workers

Shelby Bowden
Shelby's best festival photos

Pascha 2010
  • Making Crosses
  • Palm Sunday Luncheon
  • Dying Eggs
  • Decorating Epitaphios
  • Egg Hunt
  • Other

Greek Independence Day

More Greek Ind. Day Photos

Cathedral Directory

Photos of Sunday School Classes