907 9 Avenue N, Lethbridge, Alberta T1H 1E9, Canada
ROCOR ORTHODOX CHURCH LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA CANADA
Welcome to Dormition of the Holy Theotokos Orthodox Church in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
Priest Father Mikhail Baleka
Our Services
Our Rector November 2023- present
Our Church History
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Our Church History
Our Rector November 2023- present
Our Church History
The Dormition of the Holy Theotokos( Formerly Assumption of the Holy Virgin Orthodox Church) is a quaint little church located in Lethbridge, Alberta. It sits quietly nestled in-between two houses in a residential area of the city. Yet that is not where this Russian Greek Orthodox Church originally started. Years ago, the congregants of
The Dormition of the Holy Theotokos( Formerly Assumption of the Holy Virgin Orthodox Church) is a quaint little church located in Lethbridge, Alberta. It sits quietly nestled in-between two houses in a residential area of the city. Yet that is not where this Russian Greek Orthodox Church originally started. Years ago, the congregants of Assumption of the Holy Virgin met in the tiny, rented back room of Top’s Pizza restaurant. When the Reverend Aggey Mazur(1885-1970) came from Calgary to establish a church he brought with him the idea of having an actual church to worship in. In 1965, the parishioners canvased and raised enough money to purchase a Baptist Church and convert it into the Orthodox Church that we worship in today.
Father Mikhail Baleka is now serving as Rector of the Parish.
In the end of 2023 we began the process of correcting the church name from Assumption of the Holy Virgin to Dormition of the Holy Theotokos.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Our Rector November 2023- present
Our Rector November 2023- present
Our Rector November 2023- present
On October 10th of 2021 Mikhail was made a Reader and a Subdeacon by Archbishop Ireneé of the OCA on behalf of Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada. On May 21st, 2022 Mikhail was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Luke at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville NY, and the next day Ilya Poloushin was tonsured a reader and Fr. Mikhail
On October 10th of 2021 Mikhail was made a Reader and a Subdeacon by Archbishop Ireneé of the OCA on behalf of Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada. On May 21st, 2022 Mikhail was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Luke at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville NY, and the next day Ilya Poloushin was tonsured a reader and Fr. Mikhail was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Gabriel. He assisted in the burial of the beloved Metropolitan Hilarion that day. After serving his home parish as the second priest for almost two years, Father Mikhail now serves as the rector of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos in Lethbridge Alberta as of November 2023
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