{"id":861,"date":"2016-08-24T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dormitionnorfolk.com\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2017-04-16T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T03:20:58","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/?page_id=861","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Church is a parish of the <a href=\"http:\/\/oca.org\">Orthodox Church in America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dosoca.org\">Diocese of the South<\/a>, composed of American converts to Orthodoxy, along with Greeks, Russians, Romanians, Egyptians, Bulgarians, and whoever else walks through the front door. The community is committed to keeping the Faith as transmitted by the Apostles to the first Fathers of the Church and preserved in the Holy Orthodox Church. Visitors are always welcome at Dormition! Many of us started our journey as \u201cvisitors.\u201d Our services are in English and open to the public. We say to all, &#8220;Come and see!\u201d Come and see and experience the unchanged Christian Faith \u2013 the Orthodox Church!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1414\" src=\"http:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821-685x913.jpg 685w, https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170414_155821-2000x2667.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Church is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America, Diocese of the South, composed of American converts to Orthodoxy, along with Greeks, Russians, Romanians, Egyptians, Bulgarians, and whoever else walks through the front door. The community is committed to keeping the Faith as transmitted by the Apostles to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dormitionnorfolk.dormitionpress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}