When Thou shalt come, O righteous Judge,
to execute just judgment, seated on Thy throne of glory,
a river of fire will draw all men amazed before Thy judgment seat;
the powers of heaven will stand beside Thee,
and in fear mankind will be judged according to the deeds that each hath done.
Then spare us, Christ, in Thy compassion,
with faith we entreat Thee,
and count us worthy of Thy blessings with those that are saved.

Welcome to the only Eastern Orthodox Christian parish serving the greater Denton, Texas region and bearing witness to the fullness of the Christian Faith "once-for-all delivered to the saints"  by Christ's Apostles and preserved in the Church until this day.

Founded in July of 2001 at the instigation of Archbishop Dmitri, a native son of Teague, Texas, and graduate of the University of North Texas (then Texas State Teachers' College), we are a mission parish of the Diocese of Dallas and the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) under the omophor of Metropolitan Jonah. We have been in our current location in a large, historic "Greek Revival" house on Oak Street since January of 2002 (a former fraternity house). We plan to build a proper church in Denton in the near future with God's help (you may view our plans on this site).

The Orthodox Church in America is the autocephalous ("self-headed") daughter church of the Orthodox Church of Russia. Russian missionaries first brought Orthodox Christianity to the Russian territories in Alaska in 1794. They provided the native peoples with writing and translated the Scriptures and services of the Church into their languages. To the rest of these United States, Eastern Orthodox Christianity was a latecomer relative to Western forms of Christianity; only by the start of the twentieth century did the Orthodox Church have a significant presence here, primarily through immigration from Orthodox lands. Largely confined to ethnic enclaves, Orthodox Christianity did not appear on the nation's religious radar. Now in the twenty-first century, the Orthodox Church has grown beyond its ethnic origins to become an indigenous and accessible witness for Americans of all backgrounds to the fullness of the Christian Faith which she has preserved for 2000 years. Yet the Orthodox Church remains unfamiliar to many Americans, especially in the South.

We are Christians of many ethnicities living in North Texas who seek to follow Christ in the Church founded by His Apostles which He came to establish and against which He promised that the "gates of hell" would not prevail. We hold firmly to the faith they delivered to the Church as we seek to 'work out our salvation with fear and trembling' by following the path of Christ's commandments in the Gospel, including the commission to "make disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you."

Please look around our site and contact us with any questions or comments  you may have.

Click on the page "About Orthodox Christianity" to learn more about the Orthodox Church, her beliefs, and her worship.

Choose the "monthly calendar" for the current month for services and events. Please feel free to stop by the church for a service or to talk.