About Us

We are currently under the spiritual guidance of Father Iskander, who is serving in place of Father David Graham Scott during his recovery period. Father David, along with his late wife Cynthia, embraced the Orthodox Church in 2001, after fulfilling pastoral roles in United Church congregations across Noranda, Sudbury, St. Catharines, Burlington, and Wainfleet. His academic contributions include teaching at Laurentian and Brock Universities. Residing in St. Catharines, Father David has been a cherished member of our community. Please direct any inquiries to Father Iskandar in the interim.

Yes. His Grace, the Right Rev. ALEXANDER, Bishop of Ottawa, Eastern Canada and Upstate New York.  Bishop Alexander lives in Montreal, QC, and his Cathedral is in Ottawa.

Yes, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.  Our Archbishop is His Eminence, the Most Rev. Metropolitan SABA. The web address is www.antiochian.org.  Metropolitan Joseph lives in Englewood, NJ, and his Cathedral is in New York City.

The archdiocese is part of the Patriarchate of Antioch.  Acts 11:26 says, The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.  The Cathedral of our Patriarch, His Beatitude, John X, is in Damascus, Syria.

St. Ignatius of Antioch was the third bishop of Antioch, following St Peter and St Euodios. His letters written on the way to martyrdom are preserved. St Ignatius was martyred in Rome in 107 AD.

Yes!  Come and see!  Sunday Orthros (Matins) at 9:15 AM, followed immediately by the Divine Liturgy at 10:30 AM.  

We invite non-Orthodox to experience the Liturgy for several months and to study holy Orthodoxy.  After six to twelve months non-Orthodox can ask our Priest for baptism or chrismation into the Church. (Baptism with water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is not normally repeated.)

The Orthodox Church is best experienced in the Divine Liturgy, where Christ is in our midst.  But any one of the following introductions is helpful.

 Fr Anthony Canaris, Introducing the Orthodox Church; Its faith and life (Light & life);

Timothy Ware (Bishop Kallistos), The Orthodox Church (New Edition) (Penguin);

Fr Thomas Hopko, The Orthodox Faith in 4 volumes (The Orthodox Church in America)

Daniel Daly, The Choice of Orthodoxy: The Church-One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

We usually have refreshments, in the living room of the house (75 Rolls Ave) attached to the Church (332 Carlton St.)  Open to all! 

Since we fast for at least six hours before receiving Holy Communion, we hold a pot-luck supper after certain feast day Vesperal Divine Liturgies that begin at 6:30 PM.