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[[Image:FrjohnwhitefordFrjohnwhiteford2.jpg|right|Fr. [[John Whiteford]]]]
My name is Fr. Archpriest John Whiteford, and I pastor [http://www.saintjonah.org St. Jonah Orthodox Church], in [[w:Spring, Texas|Spring, Texas]].
I was born in [[w:Riverside, California|Riverside, California]] in 1966, and lived in [[w:Grand Terrace, California|Grand Terrace, California]]. My family moved to [[w:Murray, Kentucky|Murray, Kentucky]] in 1976, and then to [[w:Houston, Texas|Houston, Texas]] in 1978.
I wrote an article entitled [http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/tca_solascriptura.aspx Sola Scriptura: In the Vanity of Their Minds], which laid out many of the theological reasons for my conversion. This article was published in the Christian Activist in 1995, and then was published in a revised and somewhat expanded form by [[Conciliar Press]] in 1996, under the title [http://www.conciliarpress.com/products/Sola-Scriptura.html Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone of Reformation Theology]. This essay has been translated into [http://www.saintjonah.org/articles.htm Russian, Dutch, German, Serbo-Croat, Romanian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, and Swedish]. The Russian text was published as a [http://www.anb.nnov.ru/book/catalog.pdf booklet] by the [http://www.anb.nnov.ru/ Brotherhood of St. Alexander Nevsky in Nizhny Novgorod], in 2000.
I married Wendy Woo in 1988, who was baptized in 1991 and took the name "Patricia". I now have two daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine, and you can see them all in [http://www.saintjonah.org/pics/freliaswenpascha2015.jpg this photo] with Fr. [[Elias Wen]] (who turned 110 in 2006, reposed on June 9th, 2007, and was the oldest living priest in the Orthodox Church at that time).
I was ordained a deacon by [[Hilarion (Kapral) of Sydney|Metropolitan Hilarion]] on March 4th, 1995, and a priest by [[Gabriel (Chemodakov) of Manhattan|Archbishop Gabriel]] on January 14th, 2001.
I currently am the general editor of the [http://www.stinnocentpress.com/products/liturgical_calendar.html St. Innocent Liturgical Calendar], and also post [http://www.saintjonah.org/services/ liturgical texts on our parish web site].
I am also the dean of the southern deanery (Texas and Louisiana) of the [http://www.chicagodiocese.org/ Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America] [[ROCOR]].
You can hear a discussion on the same show on the issue of Orthodoxy, Socialism, and Capitalism by [http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/illuminedheart/orthodox_christianity_and_capitalism_revisited clicking here].
You can also hear a discussion on Ancient Faith today Today on the issue of Gay "Marriage" by [http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/aftoday/same_sex_marriage clicking here]. You can listen to a discussion on Ancient Faith Today on the subject of Ecumenism and Roman Catholicism by [http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/aftoday/the_pope_and_the_patriarch clicking here]. You can listen to a discussion on Ancient Faith Today on the subject of Fundamentalism by [http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/aftoday/orthodox_fundamentalism_what_is_it_and_does_it_exist clicking here].
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