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

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.

In the Temple

Our Chapel

The chapel interior showing the altar, the lectern with the Celtic cross, the Christ Pantocrator and the Theotokos on the chanter stands, the tartan roundel with the icon of Saint Fillan, and the pews

The altar and chanter stands

A Place of Prayer

Our chapel is small and quiet, set up after the manner of a Celtic monastic oratory. The altar stands at the centre, with the Christ Pantocrator and the Theotokos held on stands either side for veneration during the services.

Before the altar rests the tartan roundel bearing the icon of Saint Fillan: a small sign of the Scottish soil in which the parish is planted, set within the wider tradition of the Church.

The icon wall

The Icons

The icon wall gathers the apostles and saints alongside the great feasts. At its centre hangs the San Damiano cross, kept here as a sign of the unity of the eastern and western Christian inheritance that the Celtic Orthodox tradition seeks to recover.

Below stand icons of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Annunciation, and the Raising of Lazarus. The icon of Saint Fillan rests on the table during services in his honour.

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