Orthodox Churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Orthodox immigrants from Ottoman Syria began arriving in Grand Rapids in the early 1900s, working as peddlers, shopkeepers and furniture workers. Father Philip Abo-Assaley organized St. George Orthodox Church in 1908. The Russy-Antaky split, a dispute over church governance, had divided the city's Antiochian community by 1923, when St. Nicholas Church was formed; St. George also remained. St. Nicholas moved from Cass Avenue to East Grand Rapids in the 1950s and to Kentwood in 2000.

Greek immigrants founded Holy Trinity in 1926; since 1976 it has been on Lakeside Drive NE, on the city's east side. It worships in English, and its members include converts and faithful with roots in Greece, Romania, Serbia, Eritrea and Bulgaria. St. John Chrysostom Russian Orthodox Church, founded by immigrants from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, is on the West Side and uses both English and Church Slavonic. Annunciation Church, a Romanian parish, traces its background to the first Liturgy in Romanian served in Grand Rapids, on Christmas 1994.