Utah County is dominated by Latter-day Saints. But there’s a new type of church in Payson, complete with iconic domes and traditional frescoes. It is the home of St. Xenia Orthodox Christian Church.
Metropolitan Joseph consecrates St. Xenia — a Payson congregation that has tripled in size and now has its own parish.
Located in a county dominated by Latter-day Saints, the Payson building — with its iconic onion domes and traditional frescoes — symbolizes the fruits of the faith’s steady growth in the state, according to the pastor of the brand-new parish. Four-month-old Theodora Gammo is held by her mother, Gabriela Gammo, as she kisses a painting of Jesus Christ while they and the congregation take part in veneration during a consecration service for St. Xenia Orthodox Church in Payson on Saturday, July 16, 2022.
About 200 attendees were present for the consecration, which included a triple-procession around the building to symbolize, Havens explained, that “it’s being set aside.”Sacred relics — pieces of bone from two saints, one from the fourth century and the other from the 20th — then were entombed into the church’s altar used for serving the Eucharist, along with a scroll containing the names of all those who contributed to the building and parish’s creation.
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