John is a licensed architect and has practiced in the State of California for 28 years. As a 25 year member of the Department of Architecture for the Diocese of the West, Orthodox Church in America, John traveled extensively throughout the ten Western United States, serving developing missions, established parishes and monastic communities. He’s also the president of OCCIF, an Orthodox non-profit involved in assisting parishes, missions, and monastic communities, who serve the canonical jurisdictions of Orthodox Bishops of the Orthodox Church in the United States, by acquiring, building, remodeling, and refinancing church-related properties, furthering the great mission of Christ’s Church.