Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church
Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church is a church at 591 North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre.
591 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Website: http://orthodox-wilkesbarre.org
Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 204 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Pennsylvania — 2,098 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.
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The community around Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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: 43.6%
- Child Poverty: 34.1% (17.7–50.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (10.2–38.0%)
- Depression: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (5.9–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andre Bessette — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Luke's United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Parker Hill Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- LCBC — 0.3 mi away in Plains Twp, PA
- Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Jerusalem — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 1.7 mi away
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 2.2 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox — 2.9 mi away
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