Reverend Gerald Sudick

Rev. Gerald (Yaroslav) Sudick wasappointed by the Mayor to a second five year term in May 2010.

He is a member of the Superintendent's Evaluation Committee, the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee, and is the alternate liaison to the Conference of Large City School Districts.

Reverend Sudick is the pastor of the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Yonkers. In 1990, he was ordained as a Priest in the Orthodox Church of America and was most recently the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York of the Orthodox Church of America.

Reverend Sudick’s lifetime of accomplishment is reflected in the many honors he has received. Among them are Man of the Year from the Yonkers Police Pulaski Association, Teacher of the Year from the Endicott, NY School District and the Chancellor Award for Outstanding Service to the State University of New York. He has also received multiple commendations from SUNY and the Kiwanis Club for his fundraising efforts.

With a long career in education that began as a Russian Language and History Professor in Pennsylvania, Reverend Sudick expanded his horizons to New York. He holds both New York and Pennsylvania teaching licenses. The United States Department of State appointed him to the US/USSR Foreign Policy Institute and he was a Visiting Lecturer on Foreign Policy at Harvard University. Appointed to the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York at Binghamton, he also served as its chairperson. For 20 years, he taught Social Studies, American History and European History at Union Endicott High School, a public high school near Binghamton, NY.

Reverend Sudick received his Doctor of Divinity from Boston University, earned a Master of Arts in Russian Studies from Penn State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he was elected class president.