Welcome to St. John the Baptist Cathedral
St. John the Baptist Cathedral is a church in the Diocese of the Western American Diocese for the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America and was established in September of 1954. We are located at 900 Baker Street, San Francisco, California. Our parish priest is Very Reverend Djurica Gordic. Visitors are always welcome to join us each Sunday to learn more about our Orthodox Faith and Serbian Culture.
Divine Liturgy - Sunday's at 10:30 am, Church School at 11:30 am
St. Archangel Michael
The angels of God were celebrated by men from earliest times but this celebration was often turned into the divinization of angels (II Kings 23:5). The heretics wove all sorts of fables concerning the angels. Some of them looked upon angels as gods; others, although they did not consider them gods, called them the creators of the whole visible world. The local Council of Laodicea (four or five years before the First Ecumenical Council) rejected the worship of angels as gods and established the proper veneration of angels in its Thirty-fifth Canon. In the fourth century, during the time of Sylvester, Pope of Rome, and Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria, the present Feast of Archangel Michael and all the other heavenly powers was instituted for celebration in the month of November. Why precisely in November? Because November is the ninth month after March, and March is considered to be the month in which the world was created. Also, as the ninth month after March, November was chosen for,,,
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of our Cathedral
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Celebrating our Parish Slava - The Feast of St. John the Baptist
and the 70th Anniversary of our Cathedral
