Coming Up
Cantoring Workshops with Evan
Learn to sing the responses and hymns of our services, led by our cantor, Evan. No musical experience is needed. Saturdays, 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM, at St. Joseph:
- October 17 · Upper Room
- October 31 · Upper Room
- November 14 · Parish Activity Center
- December 5 · Upper Room
- December 19 · Upper Room
A donation of $15 per workshop to support Evan is appreciated.
About Our Community
A home for the Christian East in the heart of Texas.
St. Sophia is a young Byzantine Catholic community taking root in Bryan-College Station. Growing out of the Eastern Catholics of BCS prayer and fellowship group, we were canonically established in September 2026 by Bishop John Michael Botean as an Outreach of the Romanian Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of St. George in Canton, Ohio.
We are fully Catholic—in complete communion with the Pope and the universal Church—while worshiping according to the ancient Byzantine tradition of the Christian East.
We are named in honor of St. Sophia the Martyr—whose name means "Wisdom"—and in memory of the great church of Hagia Sophia, Holy Wisdom, the heart of Byzantine Christianity for a thousand years. Both point us to Christ Himself, the Wisdom of God.
When & Where
Sundays at 4:00 PM
St. Joseph Catholic Church, 507 E 26th Street, Bryan, Texas
The Divine Liturgy is celebrated monthly, with confessions from 3:00 to 3:30 PM. The Typika service is prayed on many of the Sundays in between, so that we are never two Sundays without gathering. Fellowship follows.
Connect With Us
Contact
Fr. Dcn. Alexandru Hening
Administrator of St. Sophia Romanian Byzantine Catholic Outreach · Deacon of the Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church · Mathematics Professor at Texas A&M
Mailing List
Announcements of Liturgies, feasts and gatherings, sent by email. Tap the button and send the email that opens, then reply to Google’s confirmation. We will approve your request and add you. No Google account is needed.
Support the Outreach
This is how a mission is built
Our community is young and almost everything we have has been given. Your gift helps provide what our altar still lacks and supports the costs of our monthly Liturgies. Every gift, of any size, makes a difference.
St. Sophia is an Outreach of the
Romanian Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of St. George