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Rev. Father Michael Bird, Presiding Priest

Voice: (508) 337-9986
Email: frmichaelbird@earthlink.net

The Orthodox Church has its origin with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, not with a human teacher, or a group, nor a code of conduct or religious philosophy.  Orthodoxy believes that the Church has its origin in the Apostolic Community called into being by Jesus Christ and enlivened by the Holy Spirit.  The Feast of Pentecost, which is celebrated fifty days after Easter commemorates the "outpouring" of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and marks the beginning of the Church's mission to the world.  The Orthodox Church believes that it has maintained a direct and unbroken continuity of love, faith, and order with the Church of Christ born in the Pentecost experience.  It is the Church of Christian history, the Church of Antioch where believers were first called Christians, the Church of Corinthians, the Church of Ephesians and the Church of the Thessalonians, among many others which continue to this very day.

It is a Church which has remained unchanged, not bowing to humanistic and secular reasoning!  It has remianed faithful to the inheritance of teachings from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and passed on by his disciples in the four Gospels, the Letters and Sacred Tradition.  Moreover, it is the Church which has held to the faith and caused a fourth century writer to exclaim that "it is the faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all".

The mission of our Parish is to serve the religious and spiritual needs of all Orthodox Christians, Converts, those of inter-faith marriages, and the "unchurched" living in the 95/495 area outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and especially, though not exclusively, those whose mother tongue is English.

St. Gregory the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church has been granted charter by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America under the sponsorship and direction of his Eminence Methodios, Hierarch of the Diocese of Boston.

May God Bless and always keep you in His Remembrance!

Father Michael Bird