Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

Our Parish

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Saint John's School

About Orthodoxy

Eagle River Institute

St James House

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Saint John’s community sits at the base of the Chugach mountains in Eagle River, Alaska. It is a parish in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
We invite you to join us in our journey to know God and to serve our neighbors within the tradition of Orthodox Christianity.
Sunday Divine Liturgy - 10:00am
Saturday Vespers - 7:15pm

Parish Happenings

  • Livestream St.John's Services

  • Coffee Hour Info and Schedule

    Coffee Hour after Sunday Liturgy is an important time of fellowship. Please check the schedule in the link below to see when your group is assigned to bring snacks and also when you are to host. Thank you!
    Coffe Hour Groups - Spring 2024Coffe Hour Host Schedule - Fall 2024

  • Opening the Door to Orthodox Christianity - Thursdays at the Saint James House from 7-8:30pm - beginning Nov. 7

    This will be a series of classes on the basics of Orthodox Christian beliefs and practices. These classes will be positive, not polemical; practical, not theoretical. Most of all they will aim to open the door to knowing the real God as He revealed through Jesus Christ and known in the scriptures and the Orthodox way. These classes are for inquirers and seekers, “nones” or Churchgoers, non-Orthodox or Orthodox who want to understand their faith better. Meeting with friends around a fireplace and talking about God is one of the best ways I can think of to spend a winter evening. So, I look forward to our time together. – Fr. Marc
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Community Highlight

Saint John's Students Examine Whale
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Students from Saint John's School examine a Fin Whale that was beached in Anchorage this week just beyond Westchester Lagoon. The whale was 47 feet long. The cause of the whale's death is unknown.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

Following rules can be easy. Faith is hard. Rules can be provided to us, we can receive them, we generally don’t make them up ourselves. Whereas faith is completely on us. Faith takes work. It takes sacrifice. Faith can give greater meaning and life to the rules we follow as Orthodox Christians. Such as the faith that leads us to the Eucharist after a period of fasting.”- Subdn. Tim Mellor, November 17, 2024.-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

Orthodoxy is immensely compassionate, but it does not shrink from death as from an obscenity. Death itself is a gift from the Lord, and one that sheds its terrors to the mature Christian drawing near to the end of the road. Such a road, for the friend of the Lord, is not a bleakness of desertion and wilderness, but rather the gloom of a journey made that opens into the twinkling lights of a welcoming village ahead, the Emmaus of a new encounter.”. - Fr. John Anthony McGuckin, The Orthodox Church, pg. 307.

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