Orthodox Churches in Charlotte, North Carolina

Greeks first settled in Charlotte around 1910, and a Greek Orthodox parish was organized on September 23, 1923, with about 30 families. In 1929 it bought a former Presbyterian church on South Boulevard, and in 1954 it opened Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Dilworth. St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church, in southeast Charlotte, was chartered in August 1998.

Nativity of the Holy Virgin, an English-speaking parish of the Orthodox Church in America, began as a mission on September 7, 1981, and built its church on Mineral Springs Road in 1986. The Russian Orthodox Church of the Reigning Mother of God was founded in 2005 by émigrés from the Soviet Union; a diocesan report described parishioners from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Latvia, along with several American converts. St. Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church, on Mallard Creek Road, built a church that its diocese once called one of the newest Serbian Orthodox churches in the United States.