In 2018, the rector of the St. Nicholas the Wonderworker parish in Reykjavik, Archpriest Timofey Zolotukhin, visited the Faroe Islands on a pastoral mission. On January 13, he held a service in the oldest church in the Faroe Islands, Olavs Church, located in the village of Kirkjubøur. Together with a group of Orthodox believers, Father Timofey offered a moleben to St. Olaf and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, blessed an icon of St. Olaf, and presented it to the Patursson family, the guardians of the church. They also visited the ruins of St. Magnus' church and the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, where they performed Orthodox hymns.

The next day, January 14, on the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord, Father Timofey held the Divine Liturgy in the church of the village of Funningur. The service was conducted in Church Slavonic, Serbian, English, and Icelandic. Despite the bad weather, Orthodox believers from different islands were able to arrive in Funningur to participate in the liturgy, confession, and communion.

In the evening, a meeting was held for Russian-speaking Orthodox believers and Russian citizens living in the Faroes. At the meeting, it was decided to gather regularly for secular worship and to listen to sermons together.

The majority of the population of the Faroe Islands adheres to Lutheranism and belongs to the independent Church of the Faroe Islands. Christianity appeared here at the end of the first millennium, and its spread is associated with St. Olaf. The Church of St. Olaf, built around 1250, is the oldest surviving church on the islands. Historians believe that it was originally consecrated in honor of the Holy Virgin Mary, and in 1875 it was completely rebuilt and reconsecrated.