St. Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church (Ottawa)
St. Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church (Ottawa), part of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada, is located at 1989 Prince of Wales Drive in Nepean (Ottawa), the home of the Ottawa Serbian Church School Congregation and Community centre. Today there are 2,000 families that call St. Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church their spiritual home. The majority of its members are of the first and second-generation, of course, though there are also those of the fourth and fifth-generation Canadians of Serbian descent. In 2021, a second Serbian Orthodox Church was inaugurated—The Meeting of the Lord—situated on Holland Avenue in Ottawa. History It all began with the initiatives of the late Russian interpreter for the Federal government, and activist Nikola Bogdanović (a third-generation Canadian born in Niagara Falls), Vida and Pero Senković (formerly of Montreal), Milan Budimirović, Sava Budimirović, Pera Petrović, Kole Porubić, and Miša Tričković before an Ottawa congregation was founded. In 1975 Rev. Bogdan Zjalić came to Ottawa to help organize a Church School Congregation. On the day of St. Stefan, 9 January 1976,. after the consecration of the new Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church (Montreal) Bishop Sava (Vuković) visited the Serbs in Ottawa. He celebrated the Holy Liturgy for the faithful