Our Location:
4164 Henry River Rd
Hickory, NC 28602
Please enter through the main entrance,
which is the far left doors.
Directions:
We are located 5 minutes from the intersection of Hwy 321 and I-40 West.
1 minute off of I-40, Exit 119/119B: Hildebrand/Henry River.
Go towards Henry River.
We are located 1 minute, 0.4 miles on the right.
Our Schedule
Saturdays:
Great Vespers 5:00 PM
followed by confessions
Sundays:
Hours 9:40 AM
Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM
Followed by our
Coffee social hour
See our Calendar page for Feast Days, Nativity, Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha Schedules
Welcome Home!
We are an Orthodox Christian mission church of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA),
Diocese of the South - Dallas, Texas.
Bringing the ancient faith of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to the
Catawba, Burke, Caldwell, Lincoln, and Iredell Counties of North Carolina.
Serving the Hickory, Morganton, Valdese, Hildebran, Lenoir, Lincolnton, and Statesville areas.
12 Things I Wish I'd Known
12 Things I wish I'd known. . ., written by Frederica Mathewes-Green, a beloved Orthodox author, is also a very helpful resource for a first visit to an Orthodox church.
Our Church did not begin in the 20th Century, or the 19th, or even with Martin Luther in the 16th Century. Our Church began when Jesus Christ established it more than 2,000 years ago through His apostles, and promised that the gates of hell would never prevail against it.
In the East, where Christianity began, there was no Reformation, because there, Christianity hadn't gotten lost, and didn't need to be reformed. This Church came to be called Orthodox because it has held fast to what it was given, has remained true, Orthodox, since the beginning, 2,000 years ago.
Many Orthodox churches in America were established to serve the needs of an immigrant population, and to faithfully transmit and preserve the rich cultural heritage, traditions and language of a specific nation of origin. We at Archangel Gabriel, however, are a diverse American community of ordinary people from many different ethnic and cultural groups, and our services are entirely in English.
We are a very warm and open community and we welcome all visitors.
-This section was quoted from our sister church: Holy Cross Orthodox in Kernersville, NC
