St. Mary The Protectress Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is located in Rochester, New York and is affiliated with The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, headquartered in South Bound Brook, New Jersey. The parish provides liturgical and spiritual services conducted and sung primarily in the Ukrainian language with English inserts where applicable. The church currently follows the Julian calendar, though may transition to the Gregorian calendar in the future. Rev. Fr. Ihor Krekhovetsky serves as pastor, with Lydia Dzus as Parish Council president. The parish was established in the late 1940s by post-World War II Ukrainian immigrants who had survived German concentration camps and Soviet occupation. Services initially occurred in private homes and garages before the church was incorporated in 1950. The congregation relocated to its current St. Paul Boulevard location in Irondequoit in the early 1960s, where a larger church in Ukrainian Byzantine architectural style was constructed gradually between the 1960s and 1982 through volunteer efforts and fundraising.

Address

3176 St Paul Blvd, Irondequoit, NY 14617

Denomination

Ukrainian Orthodox

Phone

585-342-6424

Services

Worship

Sun10:00 AM

Languages

Ukrainian, English

Founded

1950

Last updated August 2026

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