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Fr Luke A Veronis
Director, Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity
50 Goddard Avenue
Brookline, MA 02445

(617)-850-1357 office
(774)-230-6985 cell

FR. LUKE A. VERONIS

Fr. Luke A. Veronis serves as the Director for the Missions Institute of Orthodoxy Christianity, which is located at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, pastors the Sts Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Webster, MA, and teaches as an Adjunct Instructor at both Holy Cross and Hellenic College. He taught for four years at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in NY (2005-2008), and is an adjunct faculty member for St. Herman’s Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) in St. Augustine, FL, and the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) in New Haven, CT.

Fr. Luke has been involved in the Orthodox Church’s missionary movement since 1987. Together with his wife Presbytera Faith, he served as a long-term cross-cultural missionary in Albania for ten and a half years (1994-2004), and as a short-term missionary in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana for eighteen months (1987-91). Since 2010, he teaches a summer class entitled The Missiology of Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania, where he takes 12 students from various Orthodox theological schools or seminaries to Albania for two weeks. He has led three short-term mission teams from his church to work with Project Mexico in building homes for the desperately poor in Tijuana, Mexico.

His published books include Go Forth: A Journal of Missions and Resurrection in Albania (2010) Lynette’s Hope: The Witness of Lynette Katherine Hoppe’s Life and Death (2008) and Missionaries, Monks, and Martyrs: Making Disciples of All Nations (1994).

Fr. Luke graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of World Mission (ThM in Missiology), Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (MDiv with Highest Distinction) and Pennsylvania State University (BS in Secondary Education/Mathematics).

At Holy Cross, he teaches the following courses: An Introduction to Orthodox Missiology, Missions and Evangelism: A Study of the Greatest Orthodox Missionaries, The Missiology of Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania, Creating a Missions Minded Parish, and An Introduction to World Religions and Missions. In Hellenic College, he teaches An Introduction to World Religions, The Worldwide Christian Missionary Movement Throughout the Centuries, The Roots of Orthodox Missions.

Fr. Luke is married to Presbytera Faith Veronis, and they have four children.