Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church is a Orthodox church at 11 Davies Place in Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. It is one of 81 churches in Poughkeepsie, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.
we worship in the Western Rite and serve Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley through prayer, the sacraments, and the life of the Church.
Holy Comforter is a Western Orthodox parish in the Archdiocese of New York of the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America.
11 Davies Place, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (914) 262-3019 · Website: https://www.holycomfortercathedral.org/
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 232 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across New York — 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 Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
- Bible Study
- Christian Meditation
- Catechism Classes
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The community around Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.0–24.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (9.3–34.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.4–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Poughkeepsie city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 1,268 residents.
Churches near Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
- Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Light Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter's Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Green Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph's Convent — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John The Baptist Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gabriel's House of Restoration Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Russian Orthodox St Nicholas Church — 1 mi away
- Kimisis Greek Orthodox Church — 2 mi away
- Saint James Antiochian Orthodox — 2.8 mi away
- Saint Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church — 6.8 mi away in Wappingers Falls, NY
- St. Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church Of Dutchess County,NY — 10.8 mi away in Hopewell Junction, NY
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