Russian Holy-Trinity Sobor (Cathedral) is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the beginnings of which can be traced from the Alaskan Russian Orthodox  Mission, dating to the end of the 18th century. It is built upon the prayers, tears and labours of the Enlighteners of America: St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, our Holy Father, St. Herman of Alaska and other holy missionaries of the early years.

Until 1970 the Church was an integral part of the American Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church. In that year, the Holy Synod, headed by His Holiness, Patriarch PIMEN, gave administrative self-governance (independence) to the Metropolia, through the granting of a Tomas of Autocephaly, which established that this portion of the Russian Orthodox Church would be independent of the Moscow Patriarchate in its future liturgical and administrative life, as this daughter-Church had attained to the status of a sister-Church, with vision and strength to function separately from the predecessor being at the sane time in full Eucharist communion with its Russian Orthodox mother-Church.

Renamed the Orthodox Church in America, it assumed the full meaning of a Church in its own right, with its own presiding hierarch, currently His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah and its own spiritual-administrative body, the Most Holy Synod of Bishops.

The Holy Orthodox Church in America, as all canonical Orthodox Churches, consists of dioceses headed by Holy Bishops, of Deaneries headed by deans,  of parishes with presiding priests and of monasteries directed by abbots.  The OCA has parishes throughout North America: Canada, the United States, Mexico; South America and Australia.  The Church abides by ecclesiastical statutes prepared and ratified in the time of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, while he was Head of the Russian Orthodox Mission in North America, 1898 - 1907.

Our parish is located in the capital city of the province of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and is found in the area known as the "North End," the home of the first Russian and Ukrainian settlers. It is a part of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Deanery of the Archdiocese of Canada. Under the spiritual authority of His Eminence, Archbishop SERAPHIM of Ottawa and Canada, it is open to people of all ethnic backgrounds.

"Слава Богу за все», - говорил святой Иоанн Златоуст. И мы скажем - Слава Тебе, Боже, во веки!

Слава Богу за все!