The Deanery is under the Omophorion of Archbishop Nicholas Marius Sidau, who is the Archbishop of Detroit and the Archeparchy of St. Peter the Aleut. The Archeparchy is under the Orthodox Church of Nations and His Beatitude Nicholas I in Paris, France. The Dean is the first amongst equals, in the Deanery. He calls his brother priests to convene for meetings that address the problems of the deanery and settles parochial disputes should they arise. Below you will find more information about our current Dean.
Fr. Adam Bartimaeus, is a Mitred Archpriest of the Archeparchy of St. Peter the Aleut, an Archeparchy of the Orthodoxe Patriarcat des Nationes. He spent several years in a traditional Roman Catholic community until he joined the Eastern Churches in 2015. After serving and worshipping in these churches for almost 10 years, Fr. Bartimaeus made the decision to the join the Orthodox Patriarchate of the Nations one of the largest autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the world not in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch.
Fr. Bartimaeus has a Master of Arts in Catechetics and Evangelization from Franciscan University and has spent much of his post-graduate research in patristics, trinitarian theology and mystical theology. Currently, he is studying for a second Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy to best serve the Church at large and families that are in need of healing and guidance.
He is bi-ritual in both the Eastern and Western rites and is a liturgist to the heart, believing that true worship to God is found to be orderly and mystical in its operation to give hearts to the Father through Jesus. He currently is the Pastor of Presentation of the Lord Orthodox Church, a western rite church, in Cumming, GA and All Saint's Orthodox Church in Cleveland, GA. As Archpriest, he oversees St. Patrick's Orthodox Church, a Western rite Church, in Savannah, GA and obtains the approval from the Archbishop for the formation of new missions.