We are part of Holy Orthodoxy - the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ - whose roots go back to Jerusalem and the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit, promised by Christ our God, was poured out upon the Apostles.
Holy Orthodoxy is the Faith of the Apostles - the Faith of the New Testament - preserved through the millenia without changes of doctrine or theology. Holy Orthodoxy has sought, and continues to seek today, to pass on unimpaired (without addition or subratraction) the "faith once received" by the Apostles of Jesus Christ..
Holy Orthodoxy includes Churches in the Middle East, in Greece and Macedonia, Ukraine and Russia, Bulgaria and Romania, Africa and Europe and North and South America. In North America the Ancient Apostolic Faith finds expression in various families of Christians, often in language groups. Orthodox worship is offered in as many languages as are spoken by Orthodox Christians. We are part of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in Communion with His Beatitude, IGNATIUS IV, the Patriarch of Antioch, "where they were first called Christians." (Acts 11.26)
In Fort Saskatchewan, we are a local fellowship of this original Christian Church. The first Orthodox Christian worship services were served here in September, 2004, when a small group of Christians first gathered together to worship God the Holy Trinity, under the guidance of Bishop JOSEPH and the Department of Missions and Evangelism of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
