THE JAMAICAN ORTHODOX MISSION (JOM)

THE JAMAICAN ORTHODOX MISSION is within the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) - Moscow Patriarchate (MP), under the omophorion of His Grace LUKE, Bishop of Syracuse (Vicar of the Eastern American Diocese). 

The mission was established in response to the efforts of a Jamaican, namely Moses Myers (a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination, The Church of God of Prophecy), who converted to Orthodox Christianity sometime in March 2014. 

On July 7, 2017, the mission’s first local parish, St. Timothy the Apostle Orthodox Church (SOUTHERN ORTHODOX COMMUNITY), was formally established in Runaway Bay, St. Ann, and later relocated to Kingston. 

On August 9, 2019, the mission’s second local parish, St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church (NORTHERN ORTHODOX COMMUNITY), was initiated in Discovery Bay, St. Ann, and on October 9th in, 2019, was formally established in Falmouth, Trelawny. 

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