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# Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ponomar-priderzhivaet-felon-ottsa-fotiia-parksa-vo-vremia-massovogo-kreshcheniia-vzroslykh-v-missii-sviatogo-antoniia-velikogo-amerikanskoi-karpato-russkoi-pravoslavnoi-eparkhii-v-khend/
- Published: 2026-10-06T12:20:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T12:40:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Society

A server holds the phelonion of Father Photius Parks during the mass baptism of adults at the mission of Saint Anthony the Great of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

At present, about 24% of all Orthodox Christians in the United States are adults who have deliberately converted to Orthodoxy from other religions or from atheism; the annual figure is in the region of 5 to 10 thousand people.