Four major groups of Eastern Orthodox Christians from the former Ottoman Empire settled in Worcester, the second-largest city in New England, over the past century. Greek, Albanian, and Romanians from Epirus in what is now southern Albania and northern Greece came to Worcester and faced challenges beyond settlement in a new country based on issues of self-identity stemming from their time in the "old country" as well as political issues facing the respective diasporas. These challenges compare and contrast with the experience of those facing another Eastern Orthodox immigrant group in Worcester, the Greek Orthodox from the former Ottoman district of Mount Lebanon. Each group established its own church in Worcester as a place of worship but also as a social gathering center and a vessel through which to promote and preserve cultural traditions. All four group dealt with political issues based on their existence as minorities in the Ottoman Empire. The settlers from Epirus often chose to identify as members of an ethnic group different than that which they claimed overseas, while Lebanese immigrants, unlike the others, were early pioneers in replacing their ethnic liturgical language with English. More recent immigration of Orthodox Christians from other parts of Albania as well as Greek whose origins are in Asia Minor have presented new challenges to the Worcester Eastern Orthodox communities. Why did members of the same family often claim different ethnic identities? Why do the languages of these groups here range from flourishing to dying to forgotten? Research into these and other issues has been minimal due in part to relative lack of communication among the different groups as well the specter of mutual family histories and feuds looming in the background. I hope to initiate a gathering of information on the history of each community here and overseas, document their experiences, and place them in the greater context of Eastern Christian minority immigration to the United States.