St. Stephen Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church
St. Stephen Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 1435 Medford Avenue in Indianapolis, IN 46222. It is one of 1,322 churches in Indianapolis, and one of 6 Orthodox congregations in the city.
Our mission is to proclaim the Gospel of Christ, to teach and spread the Orthodox Christian faith, to honor our heritage roots, to energize, cultivate, and guide the life of our community according to the Orthodox Christian lifestyle and tradition.
We are a parish of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia. As a diverse community, with parishioners from the United States, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ukraine, and Russia, we welcome all who seek the fullness of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1435 Medford Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46222Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (317) 632-9955 · Website: https://www.ststephenorthodox.org/
St. Stephen Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 47 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Indiana — 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. Stephen Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church
- Bulgarian School
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The community around St. Stephen Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (11.8–34.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (3.7–18.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.3–21.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Indianapolis city (balance) is served by 592 churches — about one congregation for every 1,486 residents.
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