We welcome you to the 2024 Roseville Greek Festival. Our stewards have gathered with grateful hearts on this weekend closest to the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anna (September 9), the blessed parents of Mary, the Birthgiver of Jesus, to whom we give all glory. Our festival is then a panigiri, which is a Greek word for a centuries-old, traditional festival held in Greek villages, which celebrates a holy man or woman of antiquity. This weekend is, first and foremost then, a celebration of our timeless love for our Patroness, Saint Anna, and the Orthodox Christian Faith, as well as that of our Mediterranean roots from which our parish was birthed, and finally, about our Roseville community in which we are so lovingly and blessedly situated within as well.

Though a small group of Greek Americans started the Orthodox Christian mission of Roseville, this parish is part of a much larger, worldwide Orthodox Christian Church, the oldest Christian Church in the world. Now this is not an esoteric theological statement or an expression stemming from some simplistic cultural pride, but rather, it is a statement of fact corroborated by the history of Christianity itself, read more