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Welcome
Take hope all ye who enter here!
Saint Mark’s Parish of Denver is a member of the Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Wichita Kansas under the Metropolitan Archdiocese of New York, the Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East: St. Peter’s Chair, His Holiness John X of Syria presiding. We are in union with His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople the New Rome, with the Moscow Patriarchate and with all the Canonical Sees of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church.
There is one Body and one Spirit…one Lord, one Faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.
EPHESIANS 4:4-6
You can tune into sunday service
In person!
8:00 AM: Low Mass
9:00 AM: Adult Sunday School
9:45 AM: Sung Matins
10:00 AM: High Mass
Or online!
If you go to the YouTube channel (feel free to subscribe to make that easier) you’ll see the live stream for the week. And more!
On January 31, 1999, at the last Annual Meeting of St. Mark’s Parish in the 20th Century, Fr. Connely suggested that it would be a good idea to summarize and review the last 100 years of the Parish. And, so the following report was gleaned from various writings of former Rectors, the book by Helen Bradshaw, and remembrances of longtime parishioners.
St. Mark’s Parish was born out of a bitter battle between the then Dean Hart of St. John’s Cathedral and the then Bishop Spalding of the Diocese of Colorado. Hart, of the cathedral, wanted the diocese to grow out and from the cathedral, as is the custom in England. Bishop Spalding wanted the growth and development of the diocese to stem from the actions of the Bishop. There was money involved, and the struggle was bitter. At that time, the Bishop could have gone one way, the cathedral another and St. Mark’s still another. Dean Hart wrote, It is a matter of great thankfulness that the God who maketh men to be of one mind in a an house, so granted us His Spirit of forgiveness that we were enabled to continue amicably our Church life for the next decade as if the strife about St. Mark’s had never occurred.