Orthodox Churches in San Diego, California

St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church built its first church in 1929 at 25th and F streets in Golden Hill and has been in Hillcrest since 1951. St. Nicholas Orthodox Church began in the 1940s, when Russian women who had married Navy servicemen in China and other local people of Russian background decided to form a Russian parish; the Metropolia sent Fr. Makary Baranoff, from Alaska, to organize it.

St. George Serbian Orthodox Church was founded in 1952. After the state bought its Lincoln Avenue site in 1962, the parish relocated to Denver Street in the Mission Bay Park area, where its church, designed by George Lykos, was consecrated in 1969. St. John of Kronstadt Russian Orthodox Church reports that it was among the first churches named for the saint after his glorification in 1964. St. Nicholas, a parish of the Orthodox Church in America, counts Americans, Russians, Ukrainians and Greeks among its members and holds services in English and Church Slavonic.