St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery

St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery is a Orthodox church at 15799 Ojai Road in Santa Paula, CA 93060. It is one of 49 churches in Santa Paula.

We strive daily to live out the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in community, seeking to love God and neighbor through prayer, hospitality and labor.

St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery is an Orthodox women's monastic community of the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America, under His Grace, the Bishop VASILY, of San Francisco and the West.

Serving since 1992

15799 Ojai Road, Santa Paula, CA, 93060

Service times

  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (805) 921-1563 · Website: https://www.stbarbaramonastery.org/

St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 201 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across California — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.

Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.

Ministries at St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery

  • Prayer Ropes
  • Wooden Caskets
  • Bookstore
  • Catechumen Classes

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The community around St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 34.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.6–15.9%)
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (3.3–9.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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