St. John the Baptist Church

On August 29, 1982, a small group of faithful immigrants from Romania gathered around Rev. Fr. Gheorghe Mircea Niculescu to officially establish a new Orthodox parish, serving the community around West Los Angeles in the Romanian Orthodox tradition. Fr. Mircea was a well-known poet and man of letters in his native Romania and an outspoken critic of the Romanian Communist regime.St. John the Baptist Romanian Orthodox Church officiated its first Divine Liturgy on September 3, 1982 as a parish of t...