Visit
Plan Your Visit
The Service
The principal service of the cathedral, held each Sunday at nine in the morning. All are welcome at the altar — the doors are open to whoever comes.
The Place
Find the Mother Church
4841 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
Liberty City · the congregation’s roots are in Overtown.
4841 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33127
What to Expect
The clergy vest in Western vestments — the chasuble, the stole, the alb — and the colors of those vestments change with the church year, exactly as this site does. In Advent the altar wears violet; at Easter, white and gold; at Pentecost, red; through the long Season after Pentecost, green. The colors are customary, not rubrical law, and they remain parish-adjustable — but they are the church’s lived practice, and the cathedral keeps them.
There is no dress code and no requirement of membership. The Mother Church receives all who come. If you have not worshipped in the African Orthodox tradition before, you will find a liturgy that is at once familiar in its Western shape and particular in its inheritance — a Black-led church under Black authority, carrying an unbroken apostolic line from 1921.
For Your First Visit
If you are coming for the first time, know that the doors are open to whoever comes. There is no membership to join, no dress code to meet, no expectation beyond your presence. The liturgy is spoken and sung in the Western shape you may already know; the inheritance it carries is particular to this church. Come as you are.