UKRAINIAN CHURCH HISTORY
We trace our Faith in Jesus Christ through His Apostle, Saint Andrew, the First Called, whose missionary journeys took him to the most southern parts of what is now the Ukraine.
In the year 988 AD, the Grand Prince of Kiev, Volodomir, asked the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople to send missionaries to the Rus-Ukraine. That year thousands of Rus-Ukrainians were received by Baptism into the Holy Catholic and Apostolic orthodox Church of Christ. The faithful in the Ukraine grew and spread the faith through their missionary efforts to the entire Russian lands. This Faith was eventually brought to Siberia and then to Alaska and down the West Coast of North American where it took root and spread across the North American continent.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ukrainian lands were overrun by the godless Bolshevik communists. Many faithful Orthodox Christians were martyred for their belief in Christ, but some were able to escape the holocaust, fleeing to Western Europe, and even to the shores of North and South America. Some of those God-fearing Ukrainians eventually arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska, bringing with them their historic Orthodox faith.

OUR LINCOLN CHURCH HISTORY
In 1947, the first Ukrainian community was established in Lincoln. In 1953 the first priest, Father Vasile Tareschinco served until 1955. Father Karl Palivilka served from 1960 to 1962. Sometime in 1962 the present temple was established and the Three Hierarchs were named as the patrons of this God- protected community. Father Nicholas Metulynsky served from 1968 to 1974. In 1974 His Eminence Metropolitan Andre (Kuschak) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of American sent Father Peter Messires (in 1979 tonsured as monk Damian) to serve the parish. He served from 1974 to 1985 when he was reassigned to Chicago, but continued to commute and serve until 1998 whereupon Father Raphael Moore began to serve from his Oklahoma City community.
A member of the parish from childhood, Nikolay Shapoval, was tonsured a Reader of the Church by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Constantine, when the Metropolitan visited the parish in 1996. Reader Nikolay was later ordained a sub-deacon and in January 2003 was ordained a deacon by His Eminence, Archbishop Vsevolod, Ruling Hierarch of Chicago and the Midwest, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. Father-Deacon Nikolay continues to serve the parish.
Others who served the parish in recent years include the Archpriest Philip Vreeland, a retired priest of the Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of America, and Father Nicholas Klodnicki, who retired as priest from Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Lincoln Nebraska. On March 26, 2006, Father Klodnicki was elevated to Archpriest and was granted permission by the Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Denver to serve under Archbishop Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA as Spiritual Father to the Three Hierarchs parish.

OUR CURRENT PARISH
The parish is blessed by the faithful service of many others who continue to offer their lives to Christ at the altar, in the choir, and as faithful members of the parish council and as children of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Three Hierarchs has continued to be a home not only for the Ukrainian and other Slavic faithful, but also for the converts to the Holy Orthodox Church. Services are predominantly in English, but the native Ukrainian language is still also used, respecting the founders of this Holy Temple and the pearl of great price which they brought to the American shores, connecting the present faithful to the faithful in the Ukraine, who received the true faith from Constantinople, who received the true faith from the Apostles, who received the true faith from Jesus Christ.