Staff photo / Bob Coupland St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, 356 S. Belle Vista Ave., welcomed its new pastor, the Rev. John Welch, left, earlier this month while saying goodbye to longtime ...

Msgr. Balta served as the pastor of the St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, in Cambria City, for nearly thirty years. He then retired from the parish several months ago. Balta also previously ...

One of the Johnstown region’s most well-known religious leaders died Sunday. Msgr. Raymond Balta, who was ordained a priest on June 22, 1969, served as pastor at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in ...

Raymond Balta was vested for celebration of the Divine Liturgy and laid in an open casket Saturday at the base of the altar at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church. More than 100 people filled the ...

Mary of Egypt is highly venerated as a Desert Mother in the Orthodox Churches. April 1 is her feat day for the Greek Orthodox ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on ... documented in the 11th century within the Byzantine Catholic Church. It was introduced into the Roman Catholic ...

St. Mary, 528 Second St., has undergone a $2 million renovation in the past two years that makes the inside of the German Gothic Revival church an artistic and symbolic spectacle, regardless of one's ...