Welcome to the Shrewsbury Orthodox Church, which worships at St. Julian’s Church, Shrewsbury, on Sundays, and at the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers, Shrewsbury, on mid-week feasts and weekday services.
We are a church of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain (Œcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) serving the Orthodox Christian community of Shropshire, UK.
We are a thriving and diverse Orthodox Church with a regular congregation of over 100 people. We have a busy schedule of services, including Matins and Divine Liturgy, each Sunday and on feast days. We have children’s activities twice a month, regular catechism for adults who want to join the Church, and twice-weekly scripture studies (on Wednesday evenings and Thursday mornings during term time). We also have weekly training for chanters.
Our Philanthropic committee (the Philoptochos) organises regular events to raise funds for the poor and the needy. Each year, we host a summer fete with a barbecue, inviting the local community. We also have an annual festival for Saint Nicholas on the first Sunday in December.
Many of us come from traditionally Orthodox countries, such as Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia; many are British people who have found a home in Orthodox Christianity. Our services are conducted in English because it is our common language, but you will also hear some Greek, Romanian and Church Slavonic.
Orthodoxy is quite simply “Christianity”! It is the Church founded by Jesus Christ after his Resurrection. Orthodox Christianity is a wonderful religion, filled with joy, hope, love, and excitement. Every year, we remember the events of Christ’s life, reflect on the meaning and renew ourselves through experiencing these feasts.
Beauty is essential to us: beauty in icons, beauty in church buildings, beauty in chanting, beauty in services. We enjoy our Orthodox Christianity and hope that anyone who visits our church will have their minds opened to the ineffable glory and majesty of God, the Holy Trinity.
Orthodox Christianity is something that we LIVE and DO. It affects every aspect of our lives and is present every day and hour of the week. Because it is something we do, it is only by joining in with that “doing” that people can understand what it is all about. Come and See!
10:30 am Morning Prayer & Scripture Study
Brendan the Navigator (d577)
Work day in prep for Nicaea 2025
9:30 am Work Party at 318 Holy Fathers
9:30 am Working Party at St Julian's
6:00 pm Great Vespers
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy
12:00 pm Children’s Catechesis | Varangian Guard Youth Club
St Winefride's Independent School, Belmont, Shrewsbury SY1 1TE
7:00 pm Vespers for the Feast of Saints Constantine and Helen
Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the Apostles
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy for the feast of St Constantine & Helen
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
6:00 pm Great Vespers
Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy
7:30 pm Voices of Nicaea Concert
Shrewsbury Cathedral, Cathedral, Town Walls, Shrewsbury SY1 1UE, UK
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
1:00 pm Pilgrimage to Penant Melangell
4:30 pm Vespers for the Feast of St Melangell
Melangell, Abbess of Penant
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
7:00 pm Great Vespers for Holy Ascension
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy for Holy Ascension
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
Work day in prep for Nicaea 2025
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
7:00 pm Holy Unction
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
12:00 pm Lunch Reception
4:30 pm Paraklesis to the 318 Holy Fathers
6:00 pm Patronal Great Vespers with His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas Presiding
Patronal Feast of the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy
2:00 pm Patronal Feast Banquet
Shrewsbury Town Football Club, The Croud Meadow, Oteley Rd, Shrewsbury SY2 6ST, UK
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
10:00 am Working party at St Julian’s
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
7:00 pm Scripture Study via Teams
Our Father Metrophanes, Archbishop of Constantinople
10:30 am Working Party at Church of the 318 Holy Fathers
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
10:30 am Morning Prayer & Scripture Study
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
11:00 am Icon Exhibition Open
9:00 am Divine Liturgy
6:00 pm Great Vespers
9:30 am Matins & Divine Liturgy
7:00 pm Scripture Study via Teams
Bartholomew & Barnabas the Holy Apostles
10:30 am Morning Prayer & Scripture Study
10:00 am Thyateira Midlands Ecclesiastical Seminary
6:00 pm Great Vespers
Saints Feasts and Readings for 05/15/2025