Thursday, May 28, 2009

A Parish Retreat with Fr. Josiah Trenham at Christ the Savior

“WHAT IS THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD?”

May 29th + 30th

Christ the Savior Orthodox Church
16th & Pines
Spokane Valley, Washington

Friday, May 29 at 7PM (after Paraclesis 6pm):

• “The Supracelestial Grace of the Priesthood according to the Scriptures”

Saturday, May 30th starting at 10AM:

• “The Miracle of Sacred Ordination”
• “The Priest as a Preacher of the Word of God”
• “Living with Your Priest in the Parish Community”
• Q + A throughout

A subject without which no one can truly understand or practice the Orthodox Christian Faith!

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

For more information and directions, please visit www.christthesavior.us.



Fr. Josiah's bio:


FATHER JOSIAH TRENHAM was born in Glendale, CA on October 6th, 1967.

In 1989 he received his B.A. in Social Science/History from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA, where his senior thesis was on the famous American theologian and revivalist, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards.

He received his M.Div. in 1992 from Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA, having also studied at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and Orlando, FL under the Reformed theologians Drs. R.C. Sproul, John Gerstner and JohnFrame.

In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Durham, England where he studied under the tutelage of the internationally renowned Orthodox Christian theologian and professorof patristics, Father Andrew Louth.

Father Josiah’s doctoral dissertation was entitled Marriage and Virginity according to St. John Chrysostom. Father Josiah is continuing his academic pursuits. His dissertation is under contract for publication by St. Herman Press under the title Terrestrial Angels: Marriage and Virginity according to St. John Chrysostom. A popularization and topical expansion of the dissertation is planned by the same press under the title God’s Gifts:Marriage, Monasticism and Sexuality according to the PatristicTradition.

Since 2004, Father Josiah has served as Adjunct Professor of History at California Baptist University (Riverside, CA) where he teaches several courses each year including The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam and The History of California. Father Josiah also participates in yearly academic forums and symposia and conducts numerous parish retreats each year throughout the United States and Canada. He is a member of the Orthodox Theological Society of America.

In the midst of his years at Westmont College Father Josiah met and married Catherine Christy of Mt. Shasta, CA on May 22nd, 1988. From their happy union have been born nine children, six boys and three girls: Chad, Aidan, Victoria, Anastasia, Basil, Cassian, Luke, Garet, and Olivia.
While still in seminary Father Josiah was licensed as a minister by the Presbyterian Church in America, and later became an ordained clergyman of the Reformed Episcopal Church. In 1993 he was received into the Orthodox Christian Church, and ordained to the holy priesthood by His Grace Bishop Basil (Essey), Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese

From 1994-1996 Father Josiah served as assistant pastor at St. Athanasius Orthodox
Christian Church, Santa Barbara, CA. Father also taught religion at Bishop DiegoGarcia Catholic High School in Santa Barbara. In 1997 Father Josiah served as resident priest at Project Mexico’s St. Innocent Orthodox Orphanage in Rosarito, Baja California, living in Mexico with his family. From 1998 until the present Father Josiah has been pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Christian Church, Riverside, CA.

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