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Welcome to Our Parish!

We would like to welcome you to the official website of St. Nicholas Cathedral. St. Nicholas is the mother Cathedral and seat of the Metropolitan of the Self-ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. It is also the first community established by St. Raphael of Brooklyn. If you would like more information, feel free to contact Father Thomas Zain, the Cathedral's Dean.

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Pascha 2013-Christ is Risen!

Great and Holy Pascha at St. Nicholas Cathedral - 05/05/13

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Great and Holy Friday 2013

Pictures from Great and Holy Friday - 05/03/13

Enjoy the pictures from the beautiful services of Holy Friday and the procession meeting Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral.

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Palm Sunday 2013

Palm Sunday 2013 - 04/28/13

The Cathedral welcomed His Grace, Bishop NICHOLAS for today's Palm Sunday celebration.

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Announcements

 2012-2013 Orthodox Lecture Series

Beginning last October, the Antiochian and Greek Orthodox parishes of Brooklyn started their annual monthly lecture series. The lectures are  held on a Thursday night once a month. Each month's lecture will be delivered by a different presenter in one of our Brooklyn parishes. The overall theme for the lectures is: "The Emmaus Journey: Feast or Famine." This year's series will consist of an overview of the various Great Feasts of the Church Year. The sixth lecture for the 2012-2013 series will take place on Thursday, May 23rd at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, 8401 Ridge Blvd. at 7:00. The topic is "The Feast of Pentecost" Archimandrite Damaskinos Ganas  is the May speaker.  Click here for the flyer and church addresses for the entire series.


2012-2013 Church School Schedule of Events

2012-2013 Church School Calendar

Click here to download the 2013 list of important dates for our St. Nicholas Church School for the remainder of the school year.

List of Cathedral Departed

List of all Cathedral Departed Available for Download

You can now download a list of the Cathedral departed that used to be printed in the monthly newsletter. We are making it available in this format in order to save printing costs. If you find any omissions or mistakes in the name/date of death of your departed loved one, please email Fr. Thomas at stnickcathedral2@aol.com to have it corrected.

Click here to download the file.

Cathedral Produces New, Updated Pamphlet

New Cathedral Brochure
As of February 2012, we have completed a new, updated version of our Cathedral brochure. This pamphlet is now available to parishioners and visitors alike for free in the vestibule of the Cathedral. You may also view  it by clicking here.
Church Bulletins

May 26, 2013 - Sunday of the Paralytic
May 19, 2013 - Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women and Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemos
  • Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women and Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemos (Download)
March 18, 2013 - Great Fast Newsletter
Life of St. Raphael of Brooklyn

Life of St. Raphael

As we celebrate the 118th Anniversary of our Mother Cathedral in 2013, it is important that we know our history and where we came from. With that in mind, in addition to the history section of our webiste, you can download a brief life of St. Raphael of Brooklyn who founded our community in 1895. Please click on the following links below to download the Cathedral booklet about St. Raphael's life:

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2. Inside of Booklet
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