Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta
Fr. Stephen Muse smuse52@gmail.com
Fr. Stephen is a bi-vocational priest with an active independent practice in Pastoral Psychotherapy, Life Coaching, and Professional Consultation. Before his entrance into the Orthodox Church in 1993 he pastored a Presbyterian Congregation in Pennsylvania for 11 years and helped begin an out-patient psychiatric clinic in Delta, Pennsylvania. In 2011 Met. Alexios of Atlanta ordained him sub-deacon. In 2014 he was ordained to the diaconate by Met. Gregory of Nyssa and to the priesthood in 2021. He served on the Assembly of Canonical Bishops Pastoral Praxis Committee and the OCA task force on Spiritual Abuse. He is a past president of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion and currently serves on their Advisory Board. He and his wife Presvytera Claudia have four children, four grandchildren and twelve Godchildren.
Fr. Stephen is a graduate of Davidson College with a degree in Philosophy and earned his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary where he first encountered Orthodoxy and studied patristics briefly with Fr. Georges Florovsky and selected writings of the Philokalia. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Loyola University of Maryland in Pastoral Counseling Psychology and did post graduate studies in Marriage and Family Therapy at University of Georgia. Fr. Stephen directed the Pastoral Counselor Training program at the Pastoral Institute, Inc. in Columbus, GA for 21 years and trained and supervised U.S. Army and Air Force Family Life Chaplains. He served as Managing Editor of The Pastoral Forum from 1993 to 2002 and from 1999-2024 directed the nationally recognized Clergy-in-Kairos program, a personalized week-long out-patient intensive for clergy (and spouse) renewal.
From 2021- 2025 he held joint appointments as clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Mercer University School of Medicine and served during 2023-2024 with the St. Francis Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program on their Site Accreditation team and Clinical Competency Committee. He has served as adjunct and PT faculty for the Australian University College of Divinity – St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Seminary, Antiochian House of Studies, Columbus State University, McAfee School of Theology; Columbia Theological Seminary; Garret Evangelical Seminary; and The Union Institute, teaching classes, supervising dissertations and serving as a mentor and ministry coach. He has led workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. and internationally, offering lectures at St. Tikhons, St. Vladimir’s, Holy Cross School of Theology, Kottayam Seminary in Kerala, INDIA, and the Army Pentagon.
His books and papers have been translated and published in Russian, Greek, Swedish, Serbian, Romanian and Arabic. Titles of his books may be found at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Stephen-Muse/author/B004IKXOTW?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=1463d682-c58a-47df-b4d0-294a8f327e4e
Garrett Spivey, Psalti gomejar@gmail.com
Anna Macminn, President of Parish Council agravesrn@gmail.com
