Our Priests

Fr. Iulian Anitei was born in Romania.

In 1993 he graduated from Veniamin Costache Seminary near Neamtu Monastery. Upon graduation in 1993 he was admitted to the A. I. Cuza University in Iasi, Romania, for a master of divinity degree.

In August 2001, he was ordained to the holy diaconate (at Neamtu Monastery) and to the holy priesthood (at the Metropolitan Cathedral at Iasi) by his Emminence Metropolitan Daniel of Moldavia (now the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Christian Church), on behalf of the chapel of the Metropolitan Center at Durau.

In 2002 , Fr. Iulian earned a master of theology degree from Holy Cross Greek School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. Then he moved from Alaska, where he was living, to San Antonio, Texas. where he was assigned to serve at the Annunciation Chapel. Since 2002, Fr. Iulian has been a member of the Romanian Archdiocese in the Americas.

In 2003, he organized the Romanian Orthodox community in Austin, where they now have a chapel and a priest serving since 2007.

In 2004, he began traveling to Houston to assist a pan-Orthodox Christian group interested in starting a mission. The community in Houston purchased a property this spring of 2011.

Fr. Iulian is married and has seven children. He currently lives in the hill country of New Braunfels, Texas, enjoying the beauty of nature and the heat of the Texas summer. Fr. Iulian has a strong interest in the field of bioethics. He is the author of numerous articles and translations in this field. He is also on the board of Christian Bioethics Journal. He attends national and international conferences in this field.

 

Fr. Peter Heers was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up near San Francisco.

In 1995 he started “Divine Ascent: A Journal of Orthodox Faith.”

From 1999 to 2013 he studied theology at the University of Thessaloniki, receiving undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in Dogmatic Theology, all under the tutelage of Professor Demetrios Tselingides.

He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 2003, in the Diocese of Kastoria, Greece. From 2006-2017 he was the rector of the parish of the Prophet Elias in Petrokerasa, Greece, Diocese of Ierissou and Agion Oros, and in 2014 he was made Protopresbyter and Spiritual Father.

From January 2017 until May 2018, Fr. Peter was the instructor of Old and New Testament at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York. Fr. Peter also served as the first Headmaster of Three Hierarchs Academy in Florence, Arizona, founded in 2018.

He is the founder and head of Uncut Mountain Press (2000) and the online catechetical platform “The Orthodox Ethos” (2015).

He is the author of The Missionary Origins of Modern Ecumenism: Milestones Leading up to 1920; The Ecclesiological Renovation of the Second Vatican Council: An Orthodox Examination of Rome’s Ecumenical Theology Regarding Baptism and the Church; as well as Formation in the Love of Truth: Principles of Orthodox Education.

Fr. Peter is the translator of several books, including Elder Paisios of Mount Athos by Hieromonk Isaac (co-translator), the Epistles of St. Paisios, The Truth of our Faith (volumes 1 & 2) by St. Cleopa, and Apostle to Zaire: The Life of Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou.

Fr. Peter has 5 children and is married to Presbytera Kyriaki, a native of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Parish Council

Fr. Julian Anitei (Parish Priest)
Fr. Peter Heers (Asistent Priest)
Dn. Dan Stan (Deacon)
Robert Brockman (President)
Gabriel Haddad (Secretary)
John Dakkour (Treasurer)
Blair Birthisel (Auditor)
Stamatis Mastrogiannis (Auditor)
Timothy Krill (Chanter)
Daniela Abayan (Ladies Auxiliary)
Cornelia Oprea (Religious Education)
Christina Khoshaba (Youth Director)

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