St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Church

Weekly English language Orthodox Christian services are conducted at 6:00 Saturday night and 9:30 Sunday Mornings, and all sincere people are invited to attend. There is a common meal after the Sunday service, courtesy of the sisterhood, to which we welcome all of our guests.

     Saint Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Church was founded by Archbishop Ioasaph of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Our Orthodox Christian community is located in the beautiful city of Edmonton, in the province of Alberta, which puts us in the middle of north-western Canada. Our parish has grown considerably in recent years, and around seventy people attend weekly services on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, as well as on feast days of the church. (click parish life for more about this website and our parish)

     Orthodox Christianity in Canada has a long history. St. Brendan, an Irish Orthodox monk, arrived in Canada long before Jacques Cartier and the French. The Viking colonists of Newfoundland and the Northwest territories were Orthodox Christian as well. St. Vladimir's parish, however, has a less mysterious heritage, founded 73 years ago by Russian Orthodox monks. St. Vladimir's has close ties to other Orthodox Christian parishes in Western Canada, and our clergy help serve mission parishes in Prince George, Vancouver, and even as far South as Sacramento, California.

     St. Vladimir's is not an exclusively Russian parish, an ethnic enclave, by any stretch of the imagination. While we do have Russian parishioners, our parish also includes many converts from low-German Mennonite backgrounds and a diverse array of Serbians, Romanians, and other Slavic peoples. What brings us together into a remarkable close-knit community is our new nationality, our Orthodox Christianity. For all of us, the Orthodox Church has become a refuge, a consolation and a hope.