St-Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church - Ottawa, Ontario - Orthodox Churches on Waymarking.com

It all began with the initiatives of the late Russian interpreter for the Federal government, and activist Nikola Bogdanovic (a third-generation Canadian born in Niagara Falls, Vida and Pero Senkovic (formerly of Montreal), Milan Budimirovic, Sava Budimirovic, Pera Petrovic, Kole Porubic, and Miša Trickovic before an Ottawa congregation was founded. In 1975 Rev. Bogdan Zjalic came to Ottawa to help organize a Church School Congregation.

On the day of St. Stefan, 9 January 1976, after the consecration of the new Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church (Montreal) Bishop Sava (Vukovic) visited the Serbs in Ottawa. He celebrated the Holy Liturgy for the faithful in the area of Ottawa-Gatineau. Following Holy Liturgy, an organizational assembly was held, and a new Church Council was elected with Nikola Bogdanovic as President and Dušan Savic, Ranko Ignatovic, and Radoš Trišic as members of the board. Bishop Sava, with his official act, approved the Church School Congregation of St. Stefan in Ottawa. He appointed Rev. Krsto Rikic of Montreal as an administrator. More than a decade went by until the Church School Congregation, headed by a new board president Savo Budimirovic, vice-president Stevan Tomic, treasurer Ana Vandusen, financial secretary Radmila Parojcic, auditors Radoš Trišic, Dane Dozet, and Josef Divic, purchased a house at 361 Dominion Street in Ottawa, where the facilities were adapted into a church parish. The Chapel was blessed in April 1990 by Bishop Georgije (Djokic),[7] the first bishop of the Eparchy of Canada who immigrated from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1984.
Many roadblocks occurred during the period of 1992 with the city restrictions forcing the chapel at 361 Dominion Street to be closed for two years where Serbs could only hold services at All Saints Anglican Church at 347 Richmond Road. Then in 1995 at the time when Protopresbyter Žarko Mirkovic was assigned in Ottawa the church board members decided to sell the Dominion Street property with all its zoning problems and purchase a building at 3662 Albion Road which was converted a year later to a temple and a community centre.

With the Yugoslav Wars, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic that followed, the Serbs of Ottawa and the area increased exponentially and dramatically in numbers from the 1990s and the 2000s. In 2008 the Serbian congregation and community, composed of old settlers and majority newcomers, began to search for an appropriate location for their future home. They found the land (two adjacent parcels) and built a community centre (2011) and a temple (2013) in the architectural style of the Old Country at 1989 Prince of Wales Drive in Nepean (Ottawa)

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Type of Orthodox Church: Eastern Type of Building: Church Status of Building: Actively in use for worship Date of organization: 01/09/1976 Date of building construction: 01/01/2013 Diocese: Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Canada Address: 1993 Prince of Wales Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada Relevant Website: [Web Link] Associated Icons, Reliefs, art, etc.: Not listed Archdiocese: Not listed

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