Orthodox Churches in Omaha, Nebraska

Drawn by meatpacking jobs around 1900, Greek immigrants in South Omaha formed St. John the Baptist parish in 1907 and built a church at 16th and Martha Streets in 1908. In February 1909 a mob attacked South Omaha's Greek Town, forcing residents to abandon the area. In 1951 the parish bought the former Temple Israel building at 602 Park Avenue in Midtown, a city landmark built in 1908; the church was consecrated in 1958.

Serbian immigrants established St. Nicholas in 1917, and its congregation includes Americans, Serbs, Russians and Bulgarians, with services mostly in English and Church Slavonic. Syrian and Lebanese American families belonging to the Phoenician Club met for Orthodox services in homes and at its clubhouse at 39th and Jones before incorporating St. Mary in 1957. In 1990 a group of 34 Episcopalians, led by their priest, joined the Orthodox Church after approaching St. Mary's priest and became St. Vincent of Lerins, an Antiochian parish in the Western tradition.