Pilgrimage

Orthodox Monasteries

In our world full of vanity, everybody at a certain point needs a break. Parishioners of the Church of Saint Sophia in Waterloo, Ontario and their Brothers and Sisters in Christ in the Eparchies of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada have a unique opportunity to find refuge from daily routine and to get closer to eternal matters during the regular visits to Orthodox Monasteries, organized by Saint Sophia’s spiritual pastor, Reverend Father Myroslav Shmyhelskyy.

Saint Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery in Bolton, Ontario is nestled in the picturesque countryside “far from the madding crowd” — yet close enough to afford Orthodox Christians from nearby cities a chance to visit and draw closer to God in a center of humility and quiet prayer. The monastery welcomes everyone who wishes to find out more about monastic life; who is drawn to worship; or wishes to venerate the monastery’s Holy Relics.

Among the faithful of Saint Sophia’s church are those who have committed themselves to journeying to monasteries farther afield — giving praise and worshiping God at Mount Athos, at the monasteries in the United States, in Thessaloniki, at Pochaiev, at the Lavra in Kyiv.

Men’s Monasteries

St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery — Florence, Arizona.
Archimandrite Paisios, Hegumen.

Holy Trinity Monastery Greek Orthodox Monastery — Smith Creek, Michigan.
Hieromonk Joseph, Hegumen.

St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery — Roscoe, New York.
Archimandrite Joseph, Hegumen.

Women’s Monasteries

Monastery of the Virgin Mary the Consolatory — Brownsburg-Chatham, Quebec.
Abbess Thekla.

St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery — Bolton, Ontario.
Mother Alexia, Hegumena.