Louis Chris Scoulas

Father Louis Chris Scoulas died Saturday, September 12, 2015 in Huntington, WV. He was born in Miami, Florida on December 10th 1929. He graduated from Austin High School in Chicago and subsequently attended the College of the University of Chicago which is known as the School of Aristotle, where he was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy. He also received a Masters in General Professional Education from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He graduated from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary in 1974.

Father Louis was sent to the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Bosse, Switzerland by Archbishop Iakovos. Father Louis considered this one of the high points of his life ministry. He was part of the Orthodox representation that had a strong influence over the non-Orthodox theologians from around the world. It was at this period that he felt that the Holy Spirit was very powerful in his life. After graduating from the Ecumenical Institute, he studied at the Academy of Crete for a semester. He took off one month to be a guest of the Jerusalem Patriarchate which included the Holy Week. On Holy Saturday he experienced the Holy Fire in the Church of the Resurrection. Father Louis also was a guest of the Sinai Patriarchate at the St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai.

Returning to Athens, he stayed at several monasteries in Greece and visited Mount Athos three times. Then he visited Rome for a month and participated in the Sistine Chapel during the 25th Anniversary of the reconciliation of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

The Father Louis continued to London and became a guest of an Orthodox Monk, Br. Joseph, who had a serious case of muscular dystrophy and confined to a wheel chair. Nevertheless, he attended Church regularly and faithfully. Br. Joseph introduced Father Louis to many notable churchmen such as Kallistos (Timothy) Ware of Oxford, Sir John Lawrence, a noted Angelican, and Archbishop Bloom of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Returning to America, he worked at St. Basil’s Academy in Garrison, N.Y., where he was a student supervisor and office secretary. Then he did youth work at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Florence, S.C. During that time he met and married Lucy Christy of Cheraw, S. C. Then he was ordained and started in his first parish of St. Nicholas in Spartanburg, S.C. – Then Holy Trinity – Constantine and Helen in Huntsville, Alabama; Constantine and Helen in Fayetteville, N.C.; Annunciation in Little Rock, AR.; Holy Trinity in Bluff City, TN; St. John the Baptist in Charleston, WV.

Father Louis was a contract chaplain for the 82nd Airborne while in Fayetteville, N.C. His Little Rock position resulted in many converts who later started a Mission which is a full fledged community today.

Surviving Father Louis is his Presvytera Lucille, son, George and daughter, Angela, a sister, Irene Forakis, in Modesto, CA, and his brother, Emmanuel, in Chicago. His deceased older brother, Father George Scoulas, was also a graduate of Holy Cross and a noted priest.

Funeral Service will be held at 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Huntington, WV.