The Very Reverend Constantine (Dean) Moralis
Father Constantine Moralis was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 30, 1966 and is the youngest of three children to Peter and Sarah Moralis. He was baptized at the Cathedral on July 30, 1967.
Upon graduation from Towson High School in 1984, he worked for the Attorney General’s Office of Maryland for two years. In 1986, he began working for Towson Ford Sales in Baltimore until 1988. From the time he was 13 years old, his parents owned a concession stand where he worked during the summer months, and eventually while attending college in the evening.
In September 1988, he enrolled in Hellenic College/Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. During his tenure at the school, he served in many capacities. He was a prison chaplain for six years at a maximum security penitentiary.
Father Dean also served as Student Government Treasurer, and later as President. He assumed responsibilities as a hospital minister at the Hellenic Nursing Home for two years. He also served on the National Council of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), where he had the chance to interact with many faith groups. During his entire course of study, he led many youth and young adult retreats.
In 1995, Father Dean traveled to Greece to serve as a counselor and group leader for the Ionian Village summer camp program. He has served as one of the chaplains since 1996, and has been head chaplain since 1998.
Upon graduation from Holy Cross in 1994, he began working as a parish assistant and youth director for the Annunciation Cathedral in Baltimore. He began serving as a campus minister at Johns Hopkins University, created two new youth groups, and continued work with the existing groups. He has an active role in the youth of our community.
Metropolitan Silas of New Jersey ordained Father Dean a Deacon on February 11, 1996, and Priest on June 9, 1996 at the Annunciation Cathedral where he currently serves.
Since 2000, Father Dean has been appointed to the Board of Trustees to the Academy of Saint Basil, a home away from home for Orthodox children, in Garrison, New York, where he currently serves as vice president. Since 1998, he has served as a chaplain to the Baltimore City Police Department.
He was elevated to the rank of Spiritual Father by Archbishop Demetrios of America on April 16, 2000. On August 4, 2002, Father Dean was elevated to the dignity of Archimandrite and installed as Dean of the Annunciation Cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland by his Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America. Father Dean was appointed to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey Council for 2004-2006. Father Dean also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology from 2004-2006. He was elected to serve as a member of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council for a two year term beginning this year.
Father Matthew Streett
Father Matthew was born into an active Episcopalian family in Fort Worth, Texas, and was raised in Bellevue, Nebraska. He converted to the Orthodox Church in 1992, and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1995, after which he began attending Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts as a seminarian in the Antiochian Archdiocese.
He married Fotini Fotiou in 1997, a young woman from Greece who was earning a degree in elementary education. He was ordained a deacon that same year and graduated with an M.Div. degree in 1998. They moved to the greater Washington D.C. area where he entered a combined M.A./Ph.D. program in Biblical Studies (New Testament) at the Catholic University of America; having been awarded the M.A. since that time, he is currently writing his doctoral dissertation. His academic emphasis is on biblical languages and apocalyptic literature, and both his Master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation focus on the Book of Revelation.
He was ordained a priest in 1999. He served Ss. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox church in Potomac, MD as one of two assistant priests while earning his degrees, and through a grant worked as bibliographer for the Syriac (Aramaic) holdings in the Semitics library at the Catholic University of America. During that time, his first child Jason Demetri Streett was born.
In 2004, he transferred to the Greek Archdiocese and began serving Nativity of the Theotokos in Fredericksburg, VA. In 2005, Father Matthew and Presbytera Fotini were blessed with a second child, Alexander Isaiah Streett. He has been serving the Cathedral since October 2006.
