• Those familiar with the Orthodox Christian Church would not expect to find one here in Toccoa, GA

• We are a home-grown Orthodox Church (see “About Us), which was later adopted into the Orthodox Church in America.

• Unlike most home-grown churches in America, St. Timothy’s did not begin because of it’s members primary concern for doctrine or teaching; it began out of a longing for the truest and fullest worship. That concern is deeply Christian, deeply Orthodox, and it led us into the most ancient and traditional teachings.

Rt. Rev. Meletios (Weber) has been the pastor of Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox
Church in Santa Cruz, California since 1994. He was received into the Orthodox
Church by Bishop Kallistos Ware in 1971. He was educated at Dulwich College and
Oxford University in England, and has a doctorate in psychological counseling.
He studied Theology at Oxford and the University in Thessalonica,
Greece. He has been an high school teacher and a university professor. He was
tonsured a monk at the Community of St John on the island of Patmos in 1978.
Fr. Meletios has served the Orthodox Church in Greece, Great Britain, Montana,
and California, and the Netherlands. In June 2008 Fr Meletios was named abbot
of St. John of San Francisco Monastery (Manton, California).

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