It is the episcopal seat of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South, sharing its status with Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Miami Lakes, Florida.

The following is from a document entitled “Some Historical Information Concerning St. Seraphim Eastern Orthodox Church” prepared by Dmitri Royster—sourced from pages 8–9 of Hearing Vol.

It may be stated parenthetically that the three above-mentioned persons were working, at the time of the organization of St. Seraphim's, in close cooperation with ROCOR's St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, of which Father Alexander Chernay of Houston was pastor and which held services periodically in the chapel of the Sunday School building at St. Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral.

Father Ilya and Subdeacon Dmitri set out to find a building that would be suitable to house the activities of the projected mission.

Mr. Raigorodsky agreed to make it possible for the group to acquire a loan from the First National Bank in Dallas in order to purchase the property (on which there was an eight-room two-story house).

Father Ilya and Subdeacon Dmitri constructed an iconostasis and made a number of shrines and articles, and a chapel was arranged on the first floor of the house.

On November 6, 1954, Subdeacon Dmitri was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Bogdan and became rector of St. Seraphim's Church (After Fr.

In order better to pursue its mission as an English-language parish and to attract orthodox people of all national backgrounds, St. Seraphim's Church decided to acquire property of its own.