St. Joseph of Optina Orthodox Church

St. Joseph of Optina Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 810 Kempsville Rd in Virginia Beach, VA 23464. It is one of 374 churches in Virginia Beach, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.

810 Kempsville Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23464

Phone: (757) 479-1714 · Website: https://russianchurchvb.org/

St. Joseph of Optina Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 45 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Virginia — 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 St. Joseph of Optina Orthodox Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 34.3%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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