Our Clergy
/ About Us / Our Clergy
Our Clergy
Fr. Jacob Andoun

Fr. Jacob was born in Beirut, Lebanon and is married to Elizabeth (Ann Rohwedder) He is a graduate of the American University of Science and Technology (BA in Accounting in 2009 and Master’s in Finance in 2010) and St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary (M.Div. in 2015). He is fluent in English, Arabic, French and has a reading knowledge of Greek. He was ordained a deacon on March 4, 2018, and a priest on August 18, 2019, both by His Grace Bishop ANTHONY.

Since graduating seminary, he has been serving as the assistant pastor of St. Mary Church in Palos Heights, IL before coming to serve at St. Stephen.

 

Email: abounajacobandoun@gmail.com 

Deacon Ray Ralston

Deacon Ray Ralston has assisted at the altar of St. Stephen Orthodox Church since 1987.  Ray holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and has spent his professional career in the telecommunications industry.  Ray and his wife Cindy are active in a variety of community organizations including the Paulding Right to Life and are the proud parents of four adult children and a growing number of grandchildren.

Priest Emeritus
image
Archpriest Andrew Moore

Father Andrew Moore graduated from Georgia Tech in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and in 1969 graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA with a Master of Divinity degree.

Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in August of 1969, he and Khouria Dannie then began their ministry at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, TN. From 1972 to 1975, they founded and served in an inner-city ministry known as The Way, in Kingsport.  In 1979, after resigning the pastorate of Woodlawn Presbyterian Church in Mableton, GA, Father Andrew and Khouria Dannie, with a few families, founded St. Stephen Evangelical Orthodox in the inner-city neighborhood of Grant Park in Atlanta, Georgia.

Along with other EOC churches throughout the country, St. Stephen was received into the Antiochian Archdiocese in February of 1987.  Father Andrew was ordained in the Orthodox Church by Metropolitan PHILIP on February 22, 1987 and was assigned as pastor of St. Stephen Orthodox Church.  St. Stephen moved to Hiram, Georgia in 1988, where God has graciously granted them a peaceful and fruitful community resting on twenty-five beautiful acres of land.

Father Andrew and Khouria Dannie have been married for more than 50 years and have been blessed by God with six children and seventeen grandchildren.  The Lord has further extended His kindness to them through many spiritual children and fellow-servants in this Christ-loving parish.