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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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Parish Life Heading into Pentecost

June 5, 2021 Featured

The parish family of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church welcomes you to our church! We are so grateful that, from June 11th on, we are able to welcome everyone without any Covid restrictions whatsoever. Here is our archbishop’s common-sense letter blessing us to move forward normally with parish …

Join Our Lenten Pilgrimage to Pascha!

March 5, 2021 Featured

Our parish family at St. Athanasius is grateful to be on the cusp of Great Lent–a special season of fasting and prayer that leads us to the sacred days of Holy Week and Pascha. In Holy Week and Pascha (April 24-May 2,) we ourselves will become witnesses to the Cross, Death, and Resurrection of …

2021: “Further Up & Further In!”

January 27, 2021 Featured

Our parish family at St. Athanasius is grateful to have a celebrated a full and glorious Christmas 2020 and Theophany 2021. You can see photos from Nativity, Theophany, and other parish-life events over the past month. We are profoundly thankful to God that, despite challenges related to Covid-19, …

The Ongoing Theophany Season

January 12, 2021 Featured

Though 2020 was in many ways a difficult year, our parish family is thankful for the blessings God has given us in this past year: parishioners supported each other, we baptized and chrismated more than a dozen people, we held two weddings, we blessed two parishioners to become monastics (and both …

Welcoming 2021 & Theophany Season

January 1, 2021 Featured

Though 2020 was in many ways a difficult year, our parish family is thankful for the blessings God has given us in this past year: parishioners supported each other, we baptized and chrismated more than a dozen people, we held two weddings, we sent two monastic candidates to two different …

Journeying from Fall to Pre-Nativity

October 31, 2020 Featured

We are now deep into our beautiful Kentucky fall! We rejoice that our parish continues its movement back to normal life. We are grateful that: Our church is fully open for worship (welcoming visitors, too) Our Sunday Fellowship Hour is back (“Outside Coffee Hour” in good weather, but …

A New Church Year With New Opportunities!

August 22, 2020 Featured

As we enter the final days in August, we are excited to pivot (boldly!) into a New Church Year, which begins on September 1. This coming church year, while no doubt full of challenges, is also full of new opportunities for our community and for each of us: The church is fully open for worship! …

Dormition Season & Open Church

August 1, 2020 Featured

As we journey into August, we mark the days of the Dormition Fast (Aug. 1-14) which precedes the Great Feast of the Dormition on Aug. 15. In this unnerving year of 2020, perhaps more than any other year, we truly need these days of purposeful prayer, fasting, and penance. Our parish calendar has …

Announcing our “Open Door Plan”

June 26, 2020 Featured

St. Athanasius is now open! Key details of our “Open Door Plan” (which you can read in full here) include: All weekday and Saturday services are completely “open” to any who wish to pray in person–including visitors! Our Sunday is Liturgy is “Open Door” in …

Towards Our Reopening!

May 9, 2020 Featured

Christ is Risen! While Christ the Eternal Pascha is Ever-Present with us, many of our people have been understabably grieved at not being able to participate in the Sacraments and in common worship, in person. We are pleased to announce the following: On Monday, May 11: St. Athanasius parish reopens …

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Pascha Continues: Christ is Risen!

April 30, 2025 Featured

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From the Archives

Houseblessing Service & Sign-up

January 2, 2025 News

Building Update

October 31, 2013 Building

Christ is Risen! Indeed, He is Risen!

April 9, 2007 Featured

Dormition Fast & August

July 25, 2019 Featured

Bulletin January 10, 2016

January 26, 2016 News

Saint Athanasius Orthodox Church
100 Lime Lane
Nicholasville, KY 40356
Directions to the church

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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