Vienna pastor’s spiritual journey leads him home

For Johnny Kurcina Jr., Mark 6:4, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home,” has special meaning.

“I’m determined to prove that wrong,” said Kurcina, 36.


Amid controversy and court battles between the local Episcopal and Anglican dioceses, Kurcina, a 1993 graduate of James Madison High School, recently started an Anglican church in his native Vienna. He is ministering to a congregation of about 250, and that number continues to grow.

The church is an offshoot of the Anglican half of the Falls Church, which has been embroiled in a legal land battle over church property for several years with its Episcopal cousins. Read more