St. Michael's is a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Welcome!

Saint Michael’s is an English speaking Orthodox Church

The parish of St. Michael the Archangel is a wonderfully warm community of faithful Christians
who look forward to greeting you personally.

If you are planning a trip to the Finger Lakes region, please join us.

If you live in the Geneva area, and are looking for Christian fellowship and worship
in the ancient traditions of the New Testament Church,
then you are more than welcome to explore the Orthodox Faith with us.

“As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey,
so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by words alone;
if we desire to know the goodness of the God, we must do so by our own experience“

— St. Basil the Great (Conversations on the Psalms, 29)

We would be overjoyed to have you join us in worship of our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ.

“O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man who trusteth in Him.” (Psalms 34:8)

About Our Parish

These words were offered by our families in Syria to our grandparents who embarked for the United States at the turn of the century. Inspired by the loving counsel of these words, and with the visit a;nd encouragement of Bishop Raphael Hawaweeny (now St. Raphael of Brooklyn), our immigrant families were inspired to build our first church on Geneva Street. There were many difficulties to overcome for those first Orthodox families in the Geneva area. However, this sacred ambition of forming a parish and building a Temple to God was foremost in their hearts from the moment of their arrival. Some families came to Geneva in the 1880’s, but most came at the end of the 19th century when the Ottoman Turks were persecuting all Christians in the Holy Land.