as an irishitalian american anyone and everyone is welcome i normally go to an oca church which is largely russian cultured but with bits of lots of other things fr stephen likes to joke that were appalachian orthodox as the parish is in east tennessee with the bulk of the congregation being converts im currently attending a carpathorussian church in northern virginia while working up here for the summer theyre a mixed bunch of russians greeks ukrainians romanians ethiopians egyptian copts and converts