Theodore has also mastered the art of Coptic Orthodox iconography. Theodore is the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Merrillville, Indiana where he painted the original frescoes lining the walls and a fresco of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child over the center altar.įr. The frescoes are painted in acrylics on dry plaster.Īnother notable commission of Fr. Done over the span of three years, it is painted in a Byzantine style and features richly colored designs and religious scenes covering the walls, vaults, pillars and dome of the church. One of his more famous works was his commission to paint the entire church at New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois, a faithful replica of the original Gračanica monastery in Kosovo, which is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as an endangered example of medieval monuments. He was a student of the late Archimandrite Cyprian, founder of the Russian school of iconography outside of Russia. Jurewicz is held to be one of the most renowned icon painters in North America today, and has painted about a dozen Eastern Orthodox churches across North America. In January 1974, Theodore Jurewicz was ordained priest.įr. He married and attended the Holy Trinity Seminary as a married Seminarian. From these visits he developed a deep interest in the Orthodox Church, and, while still a teenager, converted to Orthodoxy and joined the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Theodore was born Frank Jurewicz in 1949 into a Roman Catholic family in Erie, Pennsylvania.Īs a child he attended church assiduously and often visited the Old Believer parish of the Nativity of Christ in Erie.

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