Luke Anderson
Home Parish: Holy Trinity Church, St. Paul, MN
Seminary: St. Vladirmir’s Seminary
Year & Program: 1st year M.Div.
Joseph Goshorn-Maroney
Home Parish: St Stephen the First Martyr Church, Crawfordsville, IN
Seminary: St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Year & Program: 1st year M.Div.
Joseph was raised on a family farm in west central Indiana near Crawfordsville. He and his home parish of St. Stephen the First Martyr were received into the OCA from the Evangelical Orthodox Church in 2001 by Archbishop JOB of blessed memory.
After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology at Hanover College, Joseph pursued a Master of Science in the same subject at Western Washington University in Washington. Having completed that degree, Joseph began attending St. Innocent Antiochian Orthodox Church in Everson, WA. There he met his wife, Margaret, a teacher, and moved back to Indiana and his home parish of St. Stephen’s to run the family farm. They married within the year and now have five children: Eleni, Macrina, Seraphima, Maria, and John.
They have been active members at St. Stephen the First Martyr, Crawfordsville, where Margaret has been involved in reading and singing, while Joseph has served on the parish council in various capacities, and in the Altar. Joseph was ordained to the subdiaconate in 2019 by Archbishop PAUL of blessed memory. Joseph, Margaret and their children begin the next chapter of their lives in the Fall of 2024 at St. Tikhon’s Seminary.
Jarrod Huffman
Home Parish:
Seminary: St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Year & Program: 2nd year M.Div.
Christopher Mescher
Home Parish: St. Gregory of Nyssa Church, Columbus, OH
Seminary: St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Year & Program: 2nd year M.Div.
Christopher was raised Roman Catholic around Columbus, Ohio. He
undertook his undergraduate studies in mathematics and linguistics in
Providence, Rhode Island where he attended a TLM Catholic parish.
After completing his undergraduate studies, he returned to Columbus,
Ohio to attend the Pontifical College Josephinum, a Roman Catholic
seminary, studying for B.Phil., M.Div., M.A., and S.T.B. degrees.
While at the Josephinum, Christopher became more aware of Orthodoxy,
eventually attending St. Gregory of Nyssa parish in Columbus, Ohio in
the beginning of 2019. He ended his study at the Josephinum, having
completed a B.Phil., and began graduate study in computer science
instead, while singing in the choir and serving in the altar at St.
Gregory, eventually being Chrismated on the Feast of the
Transfiguration 2020. He completed his M.S. in December of 2022, but
never lost the desire to continue his seminary studies, which he began
at St. Tikhon’s starting in the fall of 2023. He is now starting his
second year there.
Constantine Sarsama
Home Parish: St. Matthew Church, Green Bay, WI
Seminary: St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Year & Program: 2nd year M.Div.
Cole Schlafer
Home Parish: St. Nicholas Church, Mentor, OH
Seminary: St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Year & Program: 2nd year M. Div.
Cuthbert Schreder
Home Parish: Holy Myrrhbearers Church, St. Cloud, MN
Seminary: St. Tikhon’s Seminary
Year & Program: 2nd year M. Div.
Eugene was raised in the small town of Paynesville, Minnesota, and grew up in the Restorationist denomination called the churches of Christ. He and Elizabeth were married after graduating high school in 2014. In 2020, Eugene received a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Cloud State University. In his studies he encountered several Orthodox saints whose prayers brought him to the doors of Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Church, which was only a few blocks away from the SCSU campus. On the Sunday of All Saints in June of 2020, the Schreder family was baptized into Christ, and Eugene received the name of Cuthbert. Not long thereafter, with the help of Fr Andrew Jaye, Eugene began to discern a call to the Holy Priesthood, and Archbishop Paul of Blessed Memory ordained him a reader on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women in May of 2021. Having served Holy Myrrhbearers in this capacity, Reader Cuthbert, Elizabeth, and their three children began the next chapter of their lives at St. Tikhon’s Seminary in the Fall of 2023. He is now going on his second year at seminary while he and his wife eagerly await the imminent arrival of their fourth child.
Paisios Winsler
Home Parish: St. Paul the Apostle Church, Dayton, OH
Seminary: St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Year & Program: Th.M.
Paisios is a member of St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church in Dayton, OH, currently living on campus at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. In the past, he has served in pastoral ministry in Protestant churches, as a Christian Studies educator at the high school level, and in diaconal ministry in an Anglican context. More recently, Paisios worked as a software engineer, but after a course of study with Fr. Silviu Bunta and with the counsel of his spiritual father, he and his wife agreed to pursue seminary studies. Paisios has been married to Sophia for 15 years; they have two daughters, Candice and Zenaida, and a newborn son, Oran. Upon completing the MA program at SVS, he enrolled in the advanced Master of Theology program at the same institution, which he hopes to complete in 2025.
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