The Orthodox Church in America. The Mission of The Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the local autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church, 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…”

St Barbara Monastery was founded in 1992 with the blessing of His Grace, Tikhon, Bishop of San Francisco and the West. First located in downtown Santa Barbara and then in Goleta, the Monastery relocated to its present Santa Paula location in late 2005.

Published works to date include “Orthodox Prayer Book”, “Come, Follow Me”, “The Life of St Spiridon”, and “Edler Cleopa: In the Tradition of St Paisius Velichkovsky”, and “The Tumbled Stone”, a childrens book written and illustrated by Claire Brandenburg. The Monastery newsletter, “The Veil” is published three times a year.

The Canadian Orthodox Monastery of All Saints of North America was able, by God’s blessing, to take possession of the new property in November 1991. Vladika Lazar named the property itself “New Ostrog” after the famous Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Montenegro. The candle factory was dedicated to the protection of St Vasili of Ostrog.

The Monastery of St Tikhon of Zadonsk, founded in 1905, is the first and oldest Orthodox monastery in this land and in the western world. Each year at the Memorial Day Pilgrimage, all are invited and welcome to come and share in the joy of the divine services, just as the thousands did at the first such Pilgrimage.

Please call the Monastery to make arrangements. Parish Background. The story of the monastery began in 1978 when Mother Benedicta and Mother Gabriella left the monastery of Varatec in the northern part of Romania and came to the United States to join the community of nuns at the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Ellwood City, PA.

Thursday is a silent day, and the monastery is closed. 6:30 AM Matins, First hour, Akathist. Saturday morning. Parish Background. Holy Resurrection Monastery is a female Orthodox monastic community under the omophorion of His Eminence the Most Reverend DANIEL, Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest of the Orthodox Church in America.

The Monastery of St John of San Francisco was founded in 1996 in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, California, in the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America, under Bishop Tikhon of San Francisco.

Holy Assumption Monastery was founded in 1941 by a small group of nuns who fled from Russia and China in search of freedom to practice their faith. Originally settling in San Francisco, they soon discovered the quiet town of Calistoga 80 miles north of the city and, with the blessing of the local church hierarchy, purchased an old two-story ...

The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration is a monastery for women under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in America. It was founded in 1967 by Mother Alexandra (the former Princess Ileana of Romania) whose dream it was to provide a place where American Orthodox women from all ethnic backgrounds could come to live the monastic life ...