Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On February 23, 2002, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that "the St. Louis region's Orthodox Christians, many of them second- and third-generation Americans, are looking past the national and cultural roots that separated their ancestors' religious gatherings in this country for a century... Now, many want to focus on what they have in common as American Orthodox Christians, as do the growing numbers of Protestant converts to Orthodoxy. A new local pan-Orthodox organization called Orthodox Witness wants to help them unify to study and celebrate their faith together... Most of that archdiocese's churches used to be called Russian Orthodox churches. Other churches among the 13 regional churches are under the leadership of dioceses with roots in Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Antioch... However, their theologies are virtually the same. Their liturgies and rituals are similar. While many occasionally sing or pray in the languages of their ancestors' homelands, 90 percent of most services are in English...There are about 10,000 members of Eastern Orthodox Christian churches in this area."