St. Luke's Episcopal Church

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St. Luke's Episcopal Church will start hosting classes for formerly incarcerated people at its Cypress House Bakery in January 2026. Cypress House board members and its CEO stand inside of the newly renovated kitchen. From left to right: Reverend Tyler Parry, Priest-in-Charge at St. Luke’s and Cypress House's President and CEO; Ken Goody, Cypress House board member and Foundation Executive of the D H Ross Foundation; Alejandra Marroquin, Cypress House board member and social worker with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Thomas Vanaskie, Cypress House board member and former U.S. Court of Appeals judge; and Brian Goble, Operations Manager at Cypress House at St. Luke's.

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Downtown Scranton church opening bakery training program for formerly incarcerated people

Isabela Weiss | WVIA News | Report for America

The Cypress House Bakery at St. Luke's Episcopal Church will start its workplace training program for formerly incarcerated people in January. Community members can tour its new kitchen on Friday in Scranton.

Rich Stanis, left, holds his 16-year-old dog while the Rev Dr. Tyler Parry blesses the pup. Sparky was supposed to be euthanized six months ago and Stanis says a miracle happened.

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Pets go to church: Animal blessing held at St. Luke's in Scranton

Kat Bolus | WVIA News

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church held its annual Blessing of the Animals on Friday, Oct. 3, ahead of St. Francis of Assisi's Feast Day.

Ella Rayburn pulls back the table cloth that covers the original alter at St Luke's Church in Scranton. It was made by a Scranton man who designed the altar in the same style of the church's architecture.

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NEWS VOICES: Major milestones for two historic Scranton buildings

Roger DuPuis | WVIA News, Kat Bolus | WVIA News

WVIA News reporters Roger DuPuis and Kat Bolus talk about new developments for the historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Scranton City Hall.

Both the inside, including the sanctuary, and outside of St. Luke's Episcopal Church was added to the National Historic Register of Places.

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More than a century of religious history honored in Scranton

Kat Bolus | WVIA News

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, an over 150-year-old church, in Scranton joined many Scranton and Lackawanna County buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.