About This Parish

About St. Nektarios Church

An English-speaking Orthodox parish serving the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

What This Site Is

A Door to the Ancient Faith

This website is the online home of St. Nektarios Orthodox Church, a Patristic Calendar Greek Orthodox parish serving the international community of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Here you will find the schedule of the Divine Liturgy and the great feast days, the teaching of the Holy Fathers on the questions of our age, a clear path for those who are new to Orthodoxy, an Orthodox prayer book, and a direct way to reach our clergy. Everything is offered in English, Dutch, and Greek, so that whoever you are and wherever you come from, you can find your way to the Church.

Who It Is For

For Seekers, Converts, and the Faithful

This parish was founded to serve the growing number of the faithful in the BeNeLux region — NATO families, EU staff, expats, local converts, and anyone sincerely seeking the uncompromised Orthodox Faith. Whether you are coming from a Roman Catholic, Protestant, or secular background, or you are already Orthodox and looking for a spiritual home, our doors are open. There is no pressure, only welcome, and honest answers to honest questions.

Who We Are

Under the Omophorion of the Holy Synod

St. Nektarios Parish is under the spiritual oversight of the Holy Synod of the Church of the True Greek Orthodox Christians of Greece. We hold the Faith handed down from the Apostles — unaltered in doctrine, worship, and discipline, as received from the Holy Fathers and the Seven Ecumenical Councils. This website is built and maintained by the parish community, and all of its content is grounded in Scripture, the Holy Fathers, and the conciliar tradition of the Church.

St. NektariosOrthodox Church

Divine Liturgy · Sundays · 10:00 AM CET

Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

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Under the omophorion of the Church of the True Greek Orthodox Christians of Greece — the faithful who, since 1924, have held the ancestral Julian Calendar and the apostolic Faith unaltered, in canonical continuity with the pre-innovation Orthodox Church.

Holy New Martyr Catherine of Mandra

Holy New Martyr Catherine of Mandra

In Memory · †November 15/28, 1927

Saint Catherine of Mandra — First Martyr of the Old Calendar Struggle

In November 1927, three years after the Greek hierarchy imposed the Revised Calendar, police surrounded a church in Mandra, Attica, on the orders of the new-calendar Archbishop of Athens — to arrest the faithful's Old Calendar priest. Catherine Routis, a 27-year-old mother of two, formed a human wall with the other pious women. When a policeman raised his rifle-butt to strike Father Christopher, Catherine covered him with her body. She received the mortal blow to the back of her head. She died seven days later, whispering "Most Holy Theotokos…" Her last note to her husband asked him to care for their children — one four years old, the other a few months old.

A mother of two, aged 27, who shielded her priest with her own body and received the blow meant for him.

Glorified as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Church of the True Greek Orthodox Christians of Greece, September 6/19, 2014.

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St. Nektarios Orthodox Parish · Diocese of Richmond, UK

Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg