About Us

We invite you to explore the treasures of the ancient Orthodox Christian Church which is alive and well and growing throughout the world!
The Wenatchee Orthodox Christian mission is an outreach of Christ the Savior Orthodox Christian Church in Spokane,Washington, whose priest, Fr. Michael Shanbour, provides the pastoral care for the Wenatchee Mission. We are under the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, which is dedicated to preaching, teaching, and living out the Apostolic Faith of the ancient Church, which has been preserved whole in the "Eastern Orthodox Church."

The Orthodox Church is one "one faith, one Lord, one baptism" (Eph. 4:5) made up of many regional and national churches in communion with one another. The Church is not a human "institution" but rather the Body of Christ, the Divine-Human organism whose Head is Jesus Christ and who lives by the Spirit of God the Father.

The "Mother Church" of our Archdiocese is the Church of Antioch (where the disciples were first called Christians (Acts 11:26) and is one of the original five ancient centers of Christianity called Patriarchates: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch is the 170th successor of the Holy Apostle Peter. Our self-ruling Archdiocese is under the pastoral care of our Archbishop, Metropolitan PHILIP, and our Diocese (of Los Angeles & the West) is overseen by our Bishop JOSEPH. May God grant them many years!

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Wenatchee Orthodox Christian Mission Phone:(509) 891-7632
Fr. Michael's Cell: 263-6441 E-mail Fr. Michael