Our Mission Leadership

St. Patrick is a mission of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America. Our ruling bishop, the Most Reverend Archbishop Alexander [Golitzin] of Dallas and the South, has served as our diocesan archpastor since Great Lent of 2016. It is ultimately under Archbishop Alexander’s direction and blessing that the clergy of St. Patrick serve and it is to him that they are accountable.

“See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is administered either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude of the people also be; even as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” —St. Ignatius of Antioch, c. AD 115, Smyrnaeans, Ch 8

Bishop Gerasim

His Eminence is assisted in his archpastoral ministry by the Right-Reverend Bishop Gerasim.

His Grace, Bishop GERASIM was consecrated to the episcopacy on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul. He is the bishop of Ft Worth and serves as Auxiliary to His Eminence ALEXANDER.

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon

His Eminence, Archbishop Alexander, sits on the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America, under the chairmanship of the Most Blessed Metropolitan Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington & Metropolitan of All America and Canada. Metropolitan Tikhon has served as primate of the Orthodox Church in America since fall of 2012. Metropolitan Tikhon has the task not only of serving as the ruling bishop of the capital of the USA, but also of coordinating the work of the dioceses in accordance with the canons of the Church and representing the OCA both at home and abroad. It is the special task of the primate (metropolitan) to maintain Communion of our local church with the other Orthodox churches around the world.