Diocese: Diocese of the West
Deanery: Pacific Central Deanery
Address
1040 Florence Rd.
Livermore, California 94550-5053
Parish Contacts
Ben Lomond, CA 95005
Lay Leadership
Schedule of Services
5:30 PM Vespers.
Saturday Evening
9:15 Matins, 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy.
Sunday Morning
6:30 PM Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
Wednesday Evenings in Great Lent
Confessions are heard one half-hour before all Liturgies and after Saturday evening Vespers.
Confessions
All services are conducted in English. Other services are listed in the monthly online calendar.
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Please call Fr Leo at 925-456-0845 to arrange Baptisms, Marriages, Memorial Services, Thanksgiving Services, etc.
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Parish Background
St Innocent of Alaska Mission is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America—the “autocephalous” or “self-governing” Church of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, under the jurisdiction of His Beatitude Metropolitan HERMAN. The parish is under the Omophorion of His Grace Bishop TIKHON, Bishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West.
In 1836, St Innocent (Veniaminov), at the age of 39 and while still a priest in Alaska, visited the Franciscan Mission San Jose where our mission began in the early 1990’s. No wonder he was chosen as our Patron Saint. Fr James McLuckie pastored the fledgling mission for several years. Following a heart attack, Fr James was unable to continue his ministry at the mission. He was replaced by our present pastor, Fr Leo (Bob) Arrowsmith, a former Jesuit Priest and veteran missionary teacher in Japan for 13 years.
We are blessed to have a multi-ethnic congregation, but conduct all of our services in English.
If you are mission minded—eager to see the Kingdom of God speread through Orthodoxy in the San Francisco Bay Area, come be part of our evangelical outreach. Our Bible Study Fellowship is our training ground. Our Sunday Liturgies and Homilies are the declaration of God’s Word to the nations. You are warmly invited to visit and worship the Triune God with us next Sunday.