Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be!
We welcome you and invite you to explore the treasures of the ancient Orthodox Christian Church which is alive and well today and continues to spread and grow throughout the world!
The Orthodox Church is one -- "one faith, one Lord, one baptism" (Eph. 4:5) -- made up of many regional and national churches in communion with one another. The Church is not a human "institution" nor an administrative "beauracracy," but rather the Body of Christ, the Divine-Human organism whose Head is Jesus Christ and who lives by the Spirit of God the Father.
The Church is not destroyed by the sins of Her members since Her origin is in God Himself. Rather there are "living" members of the Body striving to live in obedience to the commandments of Christ through humility and repentance, and "dead" members who through indifference, ignorance, or wilfull sin, have placed themselves spiritually outside the Church.
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Christ the Savior Orthodox Christian Church is a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and is dedicated to preaching, teaching, and living out the Apostolic Faith of the ancient Church which has been preserved whole in the "Eastern Orthodox Church."
The "Mother Church" of our Archdiocese is the Church of Antioch (where the disciples were first called Christians -- Acts 11:26) and is one of the original five ancient centers of Christianity called "Patriarchates": Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch is the 170th successor of the Holy Apostle Peter. Our self-ruling Archdiocese is under the pastor care of our Archbishop, Metropolitan PHILIP http://www.antiochian.org/Archdiocese/Bishops/philip_saliba.htm, and our Diocese (of the Northwest) is overseen by our Bishop JOSEPH http://www.antiochian.org/Archdiocese/Bishops/joseph_zehlaoui.htm. May God grant them many years!
Christ the Savior is the first Orthodox Church in Spokane Valley, located at 12407 E. 16th Avenue (N.E. Corner of 16th & Pines Ave.). We are a "daughter" and "sister" parish of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls, Idaho, and are also indebted to the people of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Western Rite Orthodox Church in Spokane for their support and prayers.
Our congregation includes people of many backgrounds, including those of "traditional" Orthodox lands -- Greek, Arabic, Russian, Romanian -- as well as those who have discovered the Orthodox Church and have embraced Her from a variety of previous confessions -- Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Mainline Protestant, Charismatic, Seventh-Day Adventist, Atheism, etc.
The Orthodox Christian Church is the organic continuation of the early Christian community beginning in Jerusalem as recorded in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. She has a direct and tangible continuity of faith and sacramental life from the Apostles.
Please join us for worship:
Saturday 6pm Ninth Hour and Great Vespers
Sunday 8:30am Matins, 10am Divine Liturgy