Saint Fillan'sat theHoly Cross

Celtic Orthodox Church

By the Cross joy has come into all the world. We gather here to venerate the Life-giving Cross of Christ and to keep the prayer of Saint Fillan in our own day.

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A parish of the Celtic Orthodox Church, dedicated to the Holy and Life-giving Cross of our Lord, under the patronage of Saint Fillan of Pittenweem.

Plan Your Visit Service Times
Liturgical Life

Services & Calendar

All are welcome to attend. If you are visiting for the first time, please arrive a few minutes early so we can greet you.

Sunday
Divine Liturgy
3.00 pm
Thursday
Compline
10.00 pm
20 June
Saint Fillan of Pittenweem
Patronal feast
Feast Days
As announced
See calendar
How We Worship

The Western Rite

Our worship follows the Western Rite. Here is what that means.

What a Rite Is

A rite is a whole tradition of worship. It holds the shape of the liturgy, the prayers said, the calendar kept, and the chant sung. It is the inherited pattern within which a community comes before God.

Orthodox Christianity is best known in its Byzantine form, the worship used across the Greek and Slavic churches. Yet the one Orthodox faith has never belonged to a single rite. It has been carried in more than one liturgical tradition since the early centuries of the Church.

The Western Rite

The Western Rite is the family of liturgical forms that grew up across the Christian West and the British Isles in the first millennium, before East and West drew apart. It is Orthodox in faith and Western in form. The doctrine and the sacraments are those of the wider Orthodox Church, while the liturgy is that of the ancient West rather than the Byzantine East.

At Saint Fillan's we keep this Western inheritance in English, drawing on the liturgies once offered across these islands when they were first evangelised. Much of its shape will be familiar to anyone who knows the older worship of the Western Church, set now within the fullness of the Orthodox faith.

Our Story

Parish & Clergy

The Parish

Saint Fillan's at the Holy Cross serves the Orthodox faithful in Glenrothes and the wider Fife area within the tradition of the ancient Celtic Church. We worship in English, drawing on liturgical forms preserved from the time when these islands were first evangelised.

Our patronal feasts are the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on 14 September and the commemoration of Saint Fillan of Pittenweem on 20 June. The community gathers weekly for the Divine Liturgy and the cycle of daily prayer.

Our Clergy

The parish is served by Father Ryan Robertson. He is available for pastoral conversations, confession, and home visits by appointment.

Enquiries about baptism, marriage, chrismation, and reception into the Orthodox Church are welcomed. Please make contact through the parish in the first instance.

What We Believe

Our Faith

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We hold the Orthodox Christian faith in its fullness, as it has been received from the apostles and guarded by the Church.

Saint Fillan's at the Holy Cross confesses the faith of the seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. We hold the same faith, the same sacraments, and the same worship as the Eastern Orthodox Church, and we are fully aligned with the Orthodox world.

The Celtic Orthodox tradition is not a departure from that faith but a return to it: the Orthodoxy that flourished in these islands in the first centuries of the Church, kept now in the language and setting of our own day.

Find Us

Visit the Parish

Address

63 Skibo Avenue
Glenrothes
Fife
KY7 4PX

Getting Here

Nearest railway station: Glenrothes with Thornton
Bus routes: 38, 39, 39A, 39B, AM1, alighting on Beaufort Drive
Parking: street parking available on Skibo Avenue

Contact

Telephone: +44 7857 404524
Email: contact@holycrossorthodoxchurch.co.uk