Obituaries

George Haseotes, a member of one of the most prominent Greek American entrepreneurial families in the United States who helped lead Cumberland Farms, the convenience-store and fuel-station chain that became a fixture of daily life

It is with deep sadness but hope in the Resurrection that we announce the falling asleep of Metropolitan Dimitrios of Xanthos on February 19, 2026. Metropolitan Dimitrios is survived by his son Nikita David Mesfin,

Eleni (Hélène) Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantinologist whose work and public voice helped restore Byzantium to the center of European history—not as a dimmed epilogue than a durable, governing civilization—died on Monday. She was 99.  

ATHENS — The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens was filled with emotion on Saturday morning, as family, friends, and public figures gathered to honor the memory of Nick Mitropoulos, one of the most respected figures of

Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology mourns the passing of Dr. Thomas C. Lelon, who fell asleep in the Lord on May 19.

Dr. Thomas C. Lelon, former President of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology passed away yesterday, May 19, 2025.

It is with deep sorrow yet with hope in the Resurrection that the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francsico shares that Dr. Tikey Zes reposed in the Lord on May 7, 2025 at the age of 97.

The casket is closed. Pope Francis reposes at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in accordance with his will. The Pope wanted his funeral to be a reflection of his tenure: simple and close to the most vulnerable.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome on April 26, 2025, and was accorded a position of special honor, in keeping with his ecclesiastical prerogatives as stated in the canons of the Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Christian Church.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America attended a Mass celebrated in Pope Francis’s memory.

Today, April 21, 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America offered the following message via social media: “The joy of Pascha is tinged with a note of sadness today, as we learn of the repose in the Lord of Pope Francis. In a world of increasing animosity, conflict and hate, Pope Francis was a towering figure of compassion, empathy and love. Memory Eternal, Requiescat in Pace.”

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America mourns the passing of the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, a pioneer in the ecumenical movement, the first woman to lead the National Council of Churches, and a close friend and collaborator of the late Archbishop Iakovos.

This morning, April 10, 2025, hierarchs and clergy from across the Archdiocesan District along with former and current staff gathered with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America in the Chapel of St. Paul at the Archdiocese headquarters to attend a Pre-Sanctified Liturgy and 20-year memorial for the Ever-Memorable Archbishop Iakovos of North & South America.

I consider it at once an honorable and forbidding task to compose an obituary for His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios, who died in the early hours of January 25, 2025. The charisma of his demeanor, the softness of his tone, the twinkle in his eye, the acuteness of his wit, the breadth of his vision, his keen capacity to listen, the warmth of his compassion—all these made for untold precious recollections and experiences, which have been sealed in my mind and heart from my time as a student and in my ministry as a clergyman. 

The legacy of Archbishop Anastasios is profoundly significant, not only for his successor but for all of us. He leaves behind the example of a true spiritual father who faithfully proclaimed the Gospel message of peace, justice, solidarity, unity, and reconciliation to the farthest corners of the earth.

Reverend Father Dennis P. Strouzas, beloved priest, fell asleep in the Lord on January 12, 2025. Fr. Strouzas, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Pastor-Emeritus, served the Archangel Michael community in Port Washington, NY from 1984 through 2016, leading the development of a community that started with thirty families and now serves 700 families.

Harold Lerow Weatherby, Jr. fell asleep in the Lord on May 1, 2023, aged 89. He took the name “Andrew” when he converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1978,  at the (then) small Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Nashville, TN. He was an unlikely addition to a community of Greek immigrants and their descendants, and a seemingly more unlikely major donor. As he passed from this world to life everlasting, he left a legacy gift to each of his beloved parishes.

Today, July 1, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America attended the meeting of the National Sisterhood of Presvyteres for this 2024 Clergy-Laity Congress. His Eminence offered memorial prayers for all the presvyteres who fell asleep in the Lord since the last Clergy-Laity Congress.

Today, June 25, the leader of the opposition of the Hellenic Republic, Stephanos Kasselakis, visited His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America in his office at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Reverend Robert George Stephanopoulos, PhD, Dean Emeritus Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, fell asleep in the Lord today, June 19, 2024.

Bishop Joachim of Amissos, PhD

Director of The Archbishop Iakovos Library

Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

I write this short notice to observe the recent death earlier this month, on 16 May, of Professor Anthony Cutler, the professor of Byzantine Art History at The Pennsylvania State University for 51 years.

Reverend Father Michael Gulgas, 67 of Amherst, fell asleep in the Lord, Sunday, April 7, 2024, on the mid Lenten Celebration of the Cross, in St. John Medical Center, Westlake following a lengthy illness.

It is with sadness yet with hope in the Resurrection that the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco announces the passing of V. Rev. Father Peter Staviski, who reposed in the Lord on March 31, 2024 at the age of 85.

In the Greek Orthodox Church, there is an important and long-standing tradition of praying for our departed brothers and sisters. Saturday (except for Lazarus Saturday and Holy Saturday) is the day of the week that is traditionally reserved for those who have fallen asleep because our Lord’s own salvific passing took place on Great and Holy Saturday.