SAINT ELIZABETH ORTHODOX MISSION

One of the three branches of Christianity and the oldest Christian Church
in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, the Orthodox Church is a fellowship
of administratively independent local churches, united in faith, sacraments,
and canonical discipline.
Our mission is a community of the Midwest Diocese of the Orthodox Church
in America. The Orthodox Church in America traces its origins to the arrival
in Kodiak, Alaska of eight Orthodox missionaries from Russia in 1794.
Based in Chicago, the Diocese of the Midwest is under the protection of His
Eminence, the Most Reverend JOB Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest
and includes approximately 80 parishes, monasteries, missions and other
institutions.