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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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May & More

We invite you to visit St. Athanasius this month as we continue to celebrate an extended season that includes the Resurrection of Christ, the Ascension, and get ready for Penteocst. We begin May with a special celebration of St. Athanasius Day (May 1 and May 2) — which can read about below! will complete our update of the website for the month by this weekend.

Additional upcoming services in May can be found on our carefully-updated google calendar. You can see the hard copy of our May calendar for both St. Athanasius and our daughter chapel in Berea St. Nina in the graphic below:

We invite you to visit St. Athanasius and/or one of our two active daughter communities, St. Nina Mission Church in Berea (extending the reach of the Orthodox Faith along the I-75 corridor & Wilderness Trail) and our Mercer County Chapel. 

Below is a collection of photos from April 2026 (which includes Baptisms, Holy Week, & Pascha) showing the full range of our parish life. We hope these photos inspire you to visit our church or one of our chapels. If you have questions about our calendar or any aspect of our Faith or parish life, please reach out to our associate pastor Fr. Giorgi Lomsadze at fr.giorgi@bluegrassorthodox.org.

Bulletin November 4, 2018

November 3, 2018 News

23rd Sunday After Pentecost Sunday of the Unmercenary Saints Today’s Readings: Eph. 2:4-10 Luke 8:41-56 Wednesday Vespers Service at 6:30pm. Following everyone is welcome to join Fr. Justin for Part 4 of the Fall Catechesis Series that continues with the Old Testament. If you have not been able to …

Bulletin October 28, 2018

October 26, 2018 News

22nd Sunday After Pentecost Today’s Readings: Gal. 6:11-18 Luke 8:26-39 Today is OCA Steward Sunday Welcome to our Newest Catechumens Last Sunday, we enrolled two new catechumens: Kenleigh Joseph (of Lexington) and Ross McClure (of Richmond). Today Rebecca McDaniel is enrolled as a catechumen. We …

Back to Basics w/ Law of God

October 22, 2018 Featured

A New Catechetical Series Based on the Law of God On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Fr. Justin began a new multi-part catechetical series, called “Back to the Basics with the Law of God.” As Father noted in part 1, the term of “Law of God” can mean, broadly speaking, any course …

Bulletin October 21, 2018

October 19, 2018 News

21st Sunday After Pentecost Today’s Readings: Gal. 2:16-20 Luke 16:19-31 Following our usual Wed. 6:30pm Vespers, Part 2 of our “Back to the Basics” Series picks up (7:20-8:20pm) with two important themes: Iconography and Prayer. We’ll look at the various types of icons– …

Bulletin October 14, 2018

October 12, 2018 News

20th Sunday After Pentecost Today’s Readings: Gal. 1:11-19 Luke 8:5-15 Great Vespers for Apostle Luke on Wednesday, October 17 at 6:30pm. Fr. Justin begins teaching a new Catechesis Series following the service beginning with the most basic Orthodox Christian teachings and progressing through …

Bulletin October 7, 2018

October 5, 2018 News

19th Sunday After Pentecost Today’s Readings: 2 Cor. 11:31-12:-9 Luke 7:11-16 Typikon 101: Understanding the Structure of our Orthodox Services On Wednesday, October 10 following 6:30pm Vespers, Zoe Zamora will be offering a 1-time teaching, introducing the “Typikon,” the ancient …

Fall in the Parish

October 3, 2018 Featured

October and the first half of November are traditionally very calm months in the life of an Orthodox parish: no Great Feasts and no fasting seasons! Early fall is a time to “catch our breath” in terms of church life. We do, however, have several special events coming up over the next six …

Bulletin September 30, 2018

September 28, 2018 News

18th Sunday After Pentecost Visitor Sunday Today’s Readings: 2 Cor. 9:6-11 Luke 6:31-36 Feast for the Protection of the Theotokos is October 1 Great Vespers & Moleben for Life will be served this Sunday at 6:30pm Liturgy will be served at 9am on Monday Vespers will be Wednesday, October 3 at …

“I will take your death!” St. John’s Recipe for Reconciling Sinners

September 25, 2018 News

The well-known early-4th-century church historian, Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, shares in his classic book Ecclesiastical History what he reports is a widely-accepted story about St. John the Theologian in the twighlight of his long life. The following is lightly adapted from Eusebius and gives us a …

Bulletin September 23, 2018

September 21, 2018 News

17th Sunday After Pentecost Conception of St. John the Baptist Today’s Readings: 2Cor. 6:16-7:1 Luke 5:1-11 Annual Parish Meeting Today After Liturgy ~11:40am Akathist to St. Sergius of Radonezh at 11am Tuesday, September 25 in memory of his repose. Akathist to St. John the Theologian at 11am …

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We are a parish of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), under the archpastoral care of his grace, the right reverend Alexander, Bishop of Dallas and the South. We are the first OCA parish in Kentucky. We are located in the heart of the bluegrass region just outside Lexington.

Saint Athanasius Orthodox Church
100 Lime Lane
Nicholasville, KY 40356
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Priest Justin Patterson
Church: (859) 881-8144
Cell: (859) 361-2823
E-mail Fr. Justin

We are a parish of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), under the archpastoral care of his grace, the right reverend ALEXANDER, Bishop of Dallas and the South. We are the first OCA parish in Kentucky. We are located in the heart of the bluegrass region just outside Lexington.

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