Fr Andrew Damick

The Very Rev. Archpriest Andrew Stephen Damick is Chief Content Officer of Ancient Faith Ministries, the former pastor (2009-2020) of St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and author or co-author of The Wolf and the Cross (2025), The Lord of Spirits (2023), Arise, O God (2021), Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (2011, 2nd ed. 2017), An Introduction to God (2014) and Bearing God (2017), all from Ancient Faith Publishing.

He has been podcasting since 2007 and is co-host of The Lord of Spirits (with Fr. Stephen De Young), The Great Tales (with Richard Rohlin), Amon Sûl (with Richard Rohlin) and The Areopagus (with Michael Landsman) podcasts and host of The Orthodox Pilgrim, Orthodox Engagement, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy and Roads from Emmaus. With Richard Rohlin, he is co-creator of the pilgrimage documentary The Wolf and the Cross.

He speaks frequently at lectures and retreats both in parishes and in other settings, and his work is well-known throughout the English-speaking Orthodox world not only for his books and podcasts, but also via documentaries and online video. His work has been translated into Romanian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish and Vietnamese.

Fr. Andrew was born in 1975 in Newport News, Virginia, to a U.S. Navy family that in 1983 became an Evangelical missionary family, living in Virginia, upstate New York and Ohio. In 1985, his family moved to the Pacific island of Guam, where they stayed through the end of his freshman year of high school in 1990, when they moved back to Ohio. After graduating from high school in 1993, Fr. Andrew moved with his family to North Carolina.