All Saints Orthodox Mission is a part of the Western Rite Communities of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). The ROCOR Western Rite is an international, non-geographic diocese of monasteries, religious communities, parishes, and missions joined in one heart: to be Orthodox faithful, blessed to retain the Western patrimony in the greater Russian Orthodox Church. We are currently under the omophorion of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, First Hierarch of ROCOR.

 

The Western Rite is a refuge for Western Christians who have the desire to join the Orthodox Church, while also worshiping according to the rites of their Western Orthodox forefathers. When Rome broke from the Holy Orthodox Church, it took the venerable Western liturgies with it. These venerable liturgies produced many saints and fed the souls of countless people. The Reformation, discerning the errors of the Roman Catholic Church, sought to re-establish the faith and practice of the early Church. In doing so, the Reformers tried to reconstruct aspects of the faith and practice of the Early Church as best they understood it. Sadly, they fell short in returning to the fullness of the Orthodox Faith by not reuniting with the Orthodox Church.

 

The Western Rite seeks to be faithful to our Orthodox Fathers in the West, while repenting of the schism of Rome and the schism of countless denominations and sects in the West. The Western Rite seeks to fulfill the heart of the Reformation to return the Church of the West to the fullness of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church that Christ founded and the Holy Spirit continues to lead.