February 4, 2025
The Most Reverend Archbishop Stephen, Primate of the Italo-Greek Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church, will ordain the Rev. Deacon Joseph Galluccio of Deland, Florida, to the Holy Priesthood on Sunday, March 30, 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, in Deland, Florida. The Divine Liturgy with the Rite of Ordination to the Holy Priesthood will begin at 10:00 am. The Service will be held at the Order of Sons and Daughters of Italy Lodge, 1270 Doyle Road, Deltona, Florida. A reception and fellowship will be held after the Divine Liturgy. The public is invited to attend.
January 2, 2025
The Chancey Office of the Italo-Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the Americas and Canada announces that the Rev. Deacon Joseph Galluccio, of Deland, Florida, has been received into the canonical jurisdiction of the Italo-Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the Americas and Canada under the omophorion of His Eminence, Archbishop Stephen, Primate of the Italo-Greek Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church and Metropolitan of the Americas and Canada of the Italo-Greeks, effective December 31, 2024, and has been subsequently inscribed into the Registry of Clergy of the Archdiocese as of the same date. Fr. Deacon Joseph has been assigned administrator of the newly created St. Severus of Milan Italo-Greek Orthodox Mission in Deland, Florida.
