About the Parish of
St Theodore and St Teilo
Founded with the blessing of Metropolitan Jean of Dubna in 2021, our call is to serve the people of Cardiff and South Wales with the Gospel as it is believed and lived according to the Orthodox Tradition.
Importantly, while the Liturgy may be 'Eastern', everything we believe and everything we do is the same as our Fathers and Mothers in the Faith believed and did when Christianity first came to Wales. The sacred history of this land is celebrated here, and all its people are welcome. That means you!
The story of the parish, continued...
We have been serving the Divine Liturgy, and other services, on at least a weekly basis since we were founded four years ago. We do so out of Conway Road Methodist Church, CF11 9NT, where we have been graciously hosted all this time. From a small group of around twelve people, we have grown in number to over a hundred on our parish roll today.
With great joy, we were able to purchase an historic church building on the outskirts of Cardiff in February 2026, and we will be moving in as soon as it is ready later this year.
Our heavenly patrons include the seventh-century St Theodore of Tarsus who, although a Greek monk from the same city as St Paul the Apostle, and after years of travel through places like Antioch, Edessa, and Constantinople, found himself in Rome, whence he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury at the age of sixty-six. He served the Church in Britain as archbishop until his death, on 19 September 690, at the age of eighty-eight. In that time, he came to be known as a great administrator, a great teacher and, above all, a great father-in-faith.
Our other patron is St Teilo of Llandaff, who lived a century earlier than St Theodore, and became one of the most influential figures of the "Age of Saints" in Wales. He served as the second Bishop of Llandaff, was a cousin of St David, and played a pivotal role in establishing the Christian faith throughout South Wales and Brittany. He is famously associated with a pilgrimage to the Holy Land alongside St David and St Padarn, where, according to tradition, they travelled to Jerusalem to receive the ordination at the hands of the Patriarch.
We follow in the footsteps of these great saints today, as we worship, pray, and learn together.
Join us on Sundays at 12:30 for Divine Liturgy at Conway Road Methodist Church, CF11 9NT.