Our Clergy
Dean of the Cathedral
Fr. Gregory Edwards
The Rev. Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D., was raised in Virginia and eastern Pennsylvania, and became a member of the Orthodox Church while studying for his bachelor's degree in Religious Studies at Brown University.
After completing a master's degree in New Testament and Early Christianity at Florida State University, he conducted doctoral studies in Greece at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating summa cum laude in 2012.
Ordained in 2007, he served parishes in Thessaloniki and Volos for 9 years. From 2006-2016, he and his wife Presvytera Pelagia lived in Greece, where their four children were born.
Fr. Gregory has served as Assistant Professor of Missiology at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary in New York since 2014. Before coming to Birmingham in March 2019, he served St. George Greek Orthodox Church in New Port Richey, Florida from 2016-2019.
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