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All Saints of Alaska Orthodox Church meets at 5363 Hamsterly Road, just off the Pat Bay Highway across from Elk Lake, just a 10-minute drive north of Victoria.

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By Car:

Coming (north) from Victoria, 10 minutes from the city limits:

Highway 17A North starts as Blanshard Street in Victoria. Drive north, past the city limits, past the exit to Royal Oak, until Elk Lake is coming up on your left. Right after the Cordova Bay Road intersection is a sign for the truck weigh scales ahead. Turn in at the weigh scales, and you will see the church directly ahead. There is parking both at the front and at the rear of the church.

Our Service Schedule

Visit our online events calendar for further information about these and other events in the church.

THE REGULAR SERVICES

Divine Liturgy - Sundays @ 10am
Great Vespers - Saturdays @ 6pm

THE FESTAL SERVICES

Festal Liturgies - 6 am
Festal Vespers - 7 pm
See the events calendar for details

Services & Events at the St. Maria Skobtsova Centre, upstairs at 824 Johnson Street, downtown Victoria

(Please note: Services and Events at the St. Maria Centre will resume in September 2010)

St. Maria Centre

The St. Maria of Paris Orthodox Outreach Centre

The St. Maria of Paris Outreach Center is located upstairs at 824 Johnson Street, in Victoria. It is a combined chapel, coffeehouse, bookstore and outreach centre, a pan-Orthodox enterprise. Join the Facebook group for news and events, and bookmark the website.

The 2010 Assembly

The 2010 Canadian Archdiocesan Assembly of the Orthodox Church in America will be held July 26 - 30 in beautiful Victoria, BC.

The theme is: When Did We See You? Orthodox Christian Outreach. For more details or to register to attend, please click the above link or the image.

2010 Canadian Archdiocesan Assembly of the OCA

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These Truths We Hold

Excerpt taken from "These Truths We Hold - The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teachings". Compiled and Edited by A Monk of St. Tikhon's Monastery. Copyright 1986 by the St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, South Canaan, Pennsylvania 18459.

To order a copy of "These Truths We Hold" visit the St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary Bookstore.

The following articles are hyperlinked to the St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary website, and will open in a new window on click.

* Church History
o A History of the Orthodox Church
o Orthodoxy in America
o Orthodoxy in the World

* Feasts of the Church
o The Feast of Feasts - Pascha
o The Twelve Great Feasts
o Various Other Feasts

* Orthodox Dogma and Doctrine
o Holy Tradition
o The Beatitudes
o The Christian Ethic
o The Mother of God
o The Symbol of Faith
o The Ten Commandments

* Orthodox Icons
o Holy Icons
o Icon Not-Made-By-Hands
o Icons of the Mother of God

* Orthodox Monasticism
o The Monastic Grades
o The Monastic Tonsure

* Orthodox Prayer
o Communing with God in Prayer
o The Church's Prayer for the Dead

* Orthodox Scripture
o The Holy Bible
o The New Testament
o The Old Testament
o The Old Testament Apocrypha
o Used in Church
o Where to Find

* Orthodox Symbolism
o The Cross
o The Other Symbols

* Orthodox Worship
o Fasting
o Fasting Rules
o Fasting Seasons and Days
o Glossary of Liturgical Terms
o Great Lent and Pascha
o Liturgical Books
o Liturgical Gestures
o Liturgical Music
o Services of the Daily Cycle
o The Divine Liturgy
o The Five Cycles

* Sacraments of the Church
o Church Mysteries
o Holy Baptism
o Holy Chrismation
o Holy Communion
o Holy Matrimony
o Holy Orders
o Holy Repentance
o Holy Unction

* The Church Building and Its Servers
o The Altar and Its Furnishings
o The Bells
o The Candles and Their Symbolism
o The Church Building
o The Clergy
o The Iconostasis
o The Sacristy and Vestry

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