ORTHODOX CHURCHES
IN
GREATER MANCHESTER
The following is a list of the Orthodox Churches and Communities in Greater Manchester, together with the address and telephone number of a contact person, in most instances the priest in charge, and the times of the principal Sunday services and the main languages used in them.
Oecumenical Patriarchate:
Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.
1] Greek Church of the Annunciation: Bury New Road , Salford. M7 0EA.
Priest in Charge Archimandrite Spyridon Katramados. Tel: 0161 792-2694, Fax: 0161 792-9816.
Orthros & Liturgy, Sunday 9.15 -12.30 Greek (for the most part)
2] Monastery of St Andrew the Apostle.
Archimandrite Ephrem. Tel: 860-4260. Email: ephrem@chorlton.com
With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios, there will be Sunday celebrations of the Divine Liturgy in English, principally for members of the Universities , and their families, in the church of St Chrysostom, Oxford Place, Victoria Park, M13, by kind permission or Fr Ian Gomersall:
LITURGIES AT SAINT CHRYSOSTOM'S CHURCH
For further details, contact either Fr Ephrem as above, David Melling [Tel: 881 3296] or Dimitri Brady [Tel: 07711 669 253], or St Peter's Chaplaincy, Precinct Centre, Oxford Road.
Ukrainian Diocese in Great Britain.
There are Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Oecumenical Patriarchate in Manchester, Bolton, Oldham and Rochdale. Please contact Fr Bohdan Matwijczuk. Tel : 01706-521634, or Fr Christopher Rogers [Tel: 0161 764 1927]
Patriarchate of Antioch.
Church of St Aidan. Clare Road, Levenshulme, M19 2GG
Father Gregory Hallam. Tel: 285-8587
Hours and Divine Liturgy: 10.00. English.
Patriarchate of Moscow.
Diocese of Sourozh
Church of the Pokrov [The Protecting Veil of the
Mother of God]
Temporarily in the R.C. Chaplaincy, Avila House, Oxford Rd. See below.
Archbishop Anatoly of Kerch.
All enquiries to: George Dance, Tel: 0161-292-1652
Liturgy: 10.30, normally 1st Sunday of the month. Slavonic. The date is sometimes changed, so it advisable to check first.
Belarusan Autocephalic Church.
Church of the Holy Mother of Zyrovicy, 22 Daresbury Street, Cheetham Hill,
Mancheter M8 9NB. Parish Priest: Mitred Archpriest John Ababurko.
All enquiries, please, to Igumen Deiniol. Tel: 01766-831272
ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES
Armenian Orthodox Church
Coptic Orthodox Church
For full details of the Coptic Orthodox Church visit their web site:
www.geocities.com/stmary_stmina
There have been Christians in Britain since Roman times, as the mosaic head of Christ from a Roman villa in Dorset testifies.