The parish of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called in Kendall (south Miami) is under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Founded in 1960, the community has been holding services at the current site since 1978. In 1992,... Read more...
On November 22/9 the Orthodox Church celebrates the feastday of Saint Matrona of Moscow. This first and the only parish dedicated the saint in America was opened nine years ago in Miami. In 2015, the Community of St. Matrona moved... Read more...
On November 22, during his archpastoral visit to Florida, Archbishop Elpidophoros, the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, visited the Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Fort Myers.
On November 2, the Church commemorated the following saints of the 4th century: the martyrs Elpidophoros, Akindinus, Pigasius, Anempodistus and Affonius of Persia. It is also the name day of the Primate of the Greek Archdiocese, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America,... Read more...
Saint Elpidophoros lived in Persia in the 4th century and suffered for Christ in the period of the years 330-335, together with the other saints Akindinus, Pigasius, Anempodistus and Affonius. Presumably, the basis for his life story was an ancient... Read more...
On October 2, 2020 the Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate, Archimandrite Alexander Belya, visited the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Manhattan where he met with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros.
With the blessing of the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America Elpidophoros Archimandrite Alexander Belya, the Vicar of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate, made a pilgrimage to the Orthodox Christian holy sites of Czechia and Slovakia.
September 1 marks the beginning of the Indiction or the Ecclesiastical (Church) New Year. On this day His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, met the clergy of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese... Read more...
From August 31 – September 2 the clergy from the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate traveled to the Holy places of Constantinople (Istanbul).
On July 2, the feast day of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, seven children were baptized in the St. Nicholas Monastery of Fort Myers. It is the only Russian monastery in Florida.
