The parish was founded in 1985 under a group of Greek Old Calendarists, but in 1992 was accepted into ROCOR. It moved into its current church building in 2016.
With Ukrainian politicians declaring they will never stop persecuting the Orthodox Church, police and schismatics continue to team up in violent church seizures. One of the latest incidents, in which the priest and elderly parishioners were physically attacked, occurred at the Prophet Elijah Church in the western Ukrainian village of Zabolotye, Chernivtsi Province.
During the Small Entrance, the Synodal decree on the appointment of Mother Judith as abbess was read out. Then Met. Nicholas read a prayer for her elevation and placed a gold pectoral cross on her.
Sergei Mudrov
The church has a multinational choir consisting of singers from ten different ethnic groups. There are many people at our services: 300–400 come to Communion on Sundays.
On Tuesday, May 27, the day before the leavetaking of Pascha, the Kazan-St. Ambrose Shamordino Monastery solemnly celebrated the 35th anniversary of its revival after being closed and desecrated by the godless authorities in 1923. The monastery was founded by the great elder St. Ambrose of Optina in 1884.