Welcome to St. Mary's Dormition Orthodox Church
We are thankful for everyone who God sends to our community in Calhan, CO. The Church welcomes all who have a sincere desire to follow the Founder and Head of our ancient Faith, our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
St. Mary’s Dormition Orthodox Church is a parish of the Diocese of the West, Orthodox Church in America. We are under the episcopacy of His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin, Archbishop of San Francisco and the West, and the ruling hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America is His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of all America and Canada.
If you are a first-time visitor without a church of your own we encourage you to join our active membership. Simply ask the usher, someone on duty at the candle stand, or me.
Our parishioners welcome you after the Divine Liturgy to join us in our Community Hall next door for a cup of coffee and conversation with our parish family of Eastern Colorado You will find people from most every walk of life and of great cultural diversity. We are one family in Christ bound together in one common faith.
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The Mission of St. Mary’s Holy Dormition Orthodox Church, a parish of the Orthodox Church in America, Diocese of the West, is to be faithful in fulfilling the commandment of Christ to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all `{`things that He has`}` commanded” so that all people may be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth: To preach, in accordance with God’s will, the fullness of the gospel of the Kingdom to the peoples of the Eastern Plains of Colorado and to invite them to become members of the Orthodox Church. To be the body of Christ in in the Eastern Plains of Colorado and to be faithful to the tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church. To witness to the truth, and by God’s grace and in the power of the Holy Spirit, to reveal Christ’s way of sanctification and eternal salvation to all.