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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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Vacation Church School

The Warmth of Pentecost

May 31, 2023 Featured

The parish is heading into the summer months of June and July. The month of June, in particular, stands out because of the Great Feast of Pentecost, our annual Vacation Church School for kids, and the reflective season of the Apostles’ Fast–which leads directly to one of our most ancient …

Pascha to Pentecost to Apostles’ Fast

June 4, 2022 Featured

With the celebration of the Feast of our Lord’s Ascension on June 2, the season of Pascha draws to a close. The days of Pentecost are drawing near. (You can see photos from throughout the Paschal season–from May until Ascension–in the gallery below.) In addition to Pentecost and …

Summertime 2021 in the Parish

July 3, 2021 Featured

This past month, our parish family enjoyed one of the richest and most active months in our history: June 2021! Now we look forward to a calmer July during which we hope to welcome you to our parish–without any restrictions whatsoever. For the month of July and even into the early fall, you …

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 …

Announcing Vacation Church School 2021

June 5, 2021 Featured

Continuing  more than 25-year tradition of Lexington-based Vacation Church School, St. Athanasius Orthodox Church is pleased to announce a “normal” Vacation Church School 2021! (Visit the Facebook VCS Event Page here.) What: Pan-Orthodox Vacation Church School (VCS) open to all children …

Looking Ahead to Summer in the Parish

May 17, 2019 Featured

Christ is Risen! Our St. Athanasius parish family is still celebrating the Pascha of our Lord (i.e., the Resurrection in light of Easter) up until the Ascension on June 6. You can explore beautiful and full photo galleries of Great Lent, the Archbishop’s Visit on Lazarus Saturday & Palm …

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Bulletin May 18th

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May 8, 2025 News

Bulletin May 4th

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Pascha Continues: Christ is Risen!

April 30, 2025 Featured

Bulletin April 27th

April 26, 2025 News

From the Archives

St. Athanasius Breaks Ground for Phase One of New Church Home on August 10, 2013

August 14, 2013 Featured

Great Lent 2010

February 3, 2010 Featured

Bulletin September 4, 2016

September 1, 2016 News

February in the Parish

January 29, 2016 Featured

Visitors’ Sunday

October 27, 2017 Featured

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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