Religion in Ontario
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Protection of the Holy Virgin Memorial Church
Memorial Church of the Baptism of Rus Millennium in Ottawa
This church was built in 1988 for the millennium of the Baptism of Rus and has since been a spiritual home for everyone seeking quiet and prayer in Canada's capital. Russian emigres of different waves, Ukrainians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Greeks, and Canadians who have embraced Orthodoxy pray here side by side.
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Russian Orthodox Mission Parish
What began in 2018 as a small group of faithful gathering to pray became an official Orthodox Church in America mission parish in 2019, and in July 2025 the community moved into a permanent home at 7 Burton Avenue - a building that spent over forty years as an Irish Protestant Loyal Orange Lodge before becoming an Orthodox church. Divine Liturgy is celebrated in Russian and English, following the old-style Julian calendar.
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Church of St.Tikhon, New Martyrs and Confessors
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Parish in Cambridge
The parish of St. Tikhon and the New Martyrs of Russia grew from occasional services and talks in rented rooms into a living community with a church of its own. Prayer in Church Slavonic is heard here, children study on Saturdays, and after the Liturgy everyone is invited to a shared meal, so each person feels part of one big family in Christ.
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Russian Orthodox Christ the Saviour Cathedral
Liturgy in Slavonic and English, Since 1915
The first Russian emigres in Toronto founded this cathedral in 1915, and it has lived alongside the city for more than a century: settlers of every wave prayed here, fine church choirs sang here, and among its parishioners was Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Emperor Nicholas II. Today it is a living community of the Orthodox Church in America, where services are heard in both Russian and English.
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St. Tikhon Russian Orthodox Representation Church
Russian Orthodox Parish of St. Tikhon
The representation church of the Russian Orthodox Church in Toronto was founded in 2000 at the request of more than a hundred Russian speaking families who wanted to keep their spiritual bond with their faith, history, and culture. The parish is named for St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, who served in his younger years on the North American continent as well.
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Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Downtown Toronto
Since the spring of 1949, Holy Trinity Cathedral has gathered Russian Orthodox believers of the Greater Toronto Area in the very heart of the city, just minutes from the university district. Full services according to the church typikon, beautiful choir singing, and a warm parish community make it a place people return to for years, and often for a lifetime.
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Our Lady of Smolensk Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Parish in Berezki, Jacksons Point
Since 1957, on the shores of Lake Simcoe in the Russian community of Berezki, a parish has stood dedicated to the wonderworking Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God. Orthodox believers from across the north of the Greater Toronto Area come here to pray in their own language, among birch and pine trees that so resemble the Russian countryside.
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Russian Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour
Russian Orthodox Parish in London Since 1950
A small group of Orthodox young people founded this parish in 1950, and the present church was consecrated in October 1962. Since then people have prayed here according to the church typikon and stayed after the service for tea. Services are celebrated in Church Slavonic and once a month in English, so longtime parishioners and those just getting to know Orthodoxy both feel at home.
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Holy Protection of the Mother of God - Hamilton
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Parish Since 1952
The parish of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God began in Hamilton with prayers in an ordinary house and grew into a church where ancient Orthodox traditions meet the warmth of a Russian community. Longtime parishioners and newcomers to Canada from Russia and other countries are equally welcome.
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Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Parish in Windsor Since 1934
Since 1934, Russian Orthodox believers across southern Ontario have prayed in the parish dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and the doors of its church stand open to anyone looking for prayer, peace, and living fellowship. Services are held not only on Sundays but on weekdays too, and on feast days and in Great Lent the church is especially full.
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Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection
Russian Orthodox Church in Toronto Since 1979
The church was consecrated in 1979 and has been a quiet corner of Winona Drive ever since, where believers of the Russian Church Abroad gather to pray on Saturdays and Sundays. The parish sings in its own choir, welcomes visiting pilgrims, and celebrates holidays together, from the children's Christmas party to a lively Maslenitsa.
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St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church
Orthodox Parish in a Historic 1872 Chapel, Richmond Hill
Since 2000, Russian speaking Orthodox believers in the north of the Greater Toronto Area have had a parish of their own, named for St. Seraphim of Sarov. It belongs to the Orthodox Church in America, serves on the Old Style calendar in Church Slavonic, and has gathered since 2012 in a historic chapel where the first services were held as far back as 1872.
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St. Patricks Cathedral in New York
Gothic silence among the skyscrapers
On Fifth Avenue, surrounded by glass, flagship boutiques, office towers and the constant movement of Midtown Manhattan, St. Patrick’s Cathedral looks almost impossible. Its white marble walls and Gothic Revival spires seem to have been carried here from another age, yet that is exactly its power. It does not disappear among the skyscrapers. On the contrary, it makes the city around it feel even more dramatic. In New York, where everything reaches upward, this cathedral reminds us that height can be not only architectural, but spiritual.
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