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Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount
Location325 Mead Mountain Road, Woodstock, New York
Built1891[1]
Architectural styleGothic Revival[1]
NRHP reference No.05001385[2]
Added to NRHPDecember 9, 2005[3]

The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden Western Orthodox church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891 by George Mead, his son, William Mead and his son's wife, Anna Della Mead. The church is a parish of the Old Calendarist Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles. Services in the Sarum Rite tradition are held each Sunday morning.

The church is purported to be the repository of a Marian weeping icon. In the 1960s, Father Francis, the much-beloved "hippie priest", here welcomed hippies who had congregated in town during those years that culminated in the famous art and music festival. Fr. Francis was a bishop of Old Catholicism, which acknowledges the Pope as an earthly spiritual leader but, unlike classical Roman Catholicism, does not consider the Pope to be supreme or infallible, before becoming Western Orthodox under the Russian Exarchate of North America and later the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Exile.[4][5]

The church has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places,[6][7] due in meaningful part to the devoted efforts of Deacon John Nelson, an understudy of Fr. Francis and peer of contemporary spiritual leaders[8] who reverently maintained the church until his death on August 1, 2017.[9] Fr. John's remains were committed to the earth alongside the structure following a traditional requiem Mass.[10][11]

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  1. 1 2 "Archiplanet.org entry". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
  2. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ William E. Krattinger (n.d.). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 2, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  4. ↑ George, Gregory. "The Origins of John (LoBue) and the Abbey of the Holy Name". True Orthodox Christianity. Buena Vista: Genuine Orthodox Church of America. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
  5. ↑ Stavrophoremonk Symeonsalos (2011). "Our History". Abbey of the Holy Name. The Hermitage of St. Prochoros of Patmos. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Description of Father Francis including interview". Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
  7. ↑ Shouting Thomas Blog article
  8. ↑ "Karmapa Visits Woodstock's Western Orthodox Church". Archived from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  9. ↑ "Father John Nelson, of Church of the Holy Transfiguration in Woodstock, dies at 66". 2 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Funeral Services for Fr. Deacon John Nelson". August 2017.
  11. ↑ "Short Overview on the Funeral Rites for Father Deacon John this Past Friday and Saturday". 7 August 2017.
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