St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral

Fr. Thomas' Biography

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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St. Nicholas Cathedral Announcement email Group

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Bishop BASIL visits Cathedral for Feast, Ordains Deacon Lucas to the Holy Priesthood - 05/23/10

The Cathedral faithful welcomed His Grace, BASIL, Bishop of Wichita for the Antiochian Archdiocese, to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. On the same day, His Grace ordained Deacon Lucas Rice, our seminarian attached to the Cathedral, to the holy priesthood. Deacon Lucas' parents and brother joined himself and Khourieh Nicole for this sacred day along with many of his fellow clergymen and friends from St. Vladimir's. The seminary was also represented by the Chancellor, Very Rev. Chad Hatfield. AXIOS to Fr. Lucas!

At the end of the liturgy, Bishop BASIL presented George Zain with the St. George scouting award.

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St. Raphael of Brooklyn Festival

Mark your calendars!!!!!!!!!

We are please to announce our fifth annual St. Raphael of Brooklyn Festival on Saturday, October 2 2010. This festival will take place in the small parking lot of the church beginning at 11:00 am and going until 6:00 pm.

Click here for our "Save the Date" Festival Flyer.

We hope to see all of you there!

Church Picnic

We will have our annual church picnic on Sunday, August 22 immediately following the Divine Liturgy at Manhattan Beach Park (across from Sheepshead Bay near Kingsborough Community College). The Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Cathedral that morning will be at 9:30am and we will proceed directly to the picnic. Everyone should bring his own food and drinks. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Hamelat El-Teeb "Card" Party

Mark Your Calendars for October 16!

The ladies of the Hamelat El-Teeb (Myrrh-Bearing Women) are hosting their third annual "card" party on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in the Cathedral hall from 12:30 to 5:00 pm. At the "card" party, there will be numerous baskets and gift items that you may buy tickets for and place them in the various baskets or items you would like to win. At the end of the afternoon, there will be a drawing for each basket. Food and beverages will also be available.

This event is open to the public and the proceeds will go toward a new Hamelat El-Teeb's project of continued beautification of the Cathedral to be determined at a later time. For additional information click here to download the flier for the event.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Jacob Aznavoorian dazles the crowd with his knock-knock jokes!

Teen SOYO Talent Show - 05/02/10

Our SOYO held its talent show on Sunday, May 2 and the participants included many of our church school aged children. We were so pleased with their performances! Thank you to all who participated. The proceeds from today will go to help send our children to the Antiochian Village and Parish Life Conference this summer as well as other projects. God bless them all!

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Cynthia Kobsa sings her heart out.

Marta and Sophia Balikcioglu do a duet.

Matthew Moussa plays a recorder with his nose.

Meira Balikcioglu sings a solo.

Sandy Salibi give her first performance in English.

Sabrina Halaka impresses us with her gymnastic routine.

George Zain performing on guitar for the first time.

A surprise performance by Sophia Gray.

Hanna gives a lovely solo.

Simone and Masha on their duet.

Thanks to the MC Adam Stephan, Khourieh Claudia and all the kids.

Great and Holy Pascha 2010 - 04/04/10

Christ is Risen!

We were once again blessed to have His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP preside at the resurrection services. Enjoy the photos.

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	August 1, 2010 - Tenth Sunday After Pentecost and The Procession of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross Tenth Sunday After Pentecost and The Procession of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross (Download)
	July 25, 2010 - Ninth Sunday after Pentecost; Dormition of Righteous Anna [Mother of the Theotokos] Ninth Sunday after Pentecost; Dormition of Righteous Anna [Mother of the Theotokos] (Download)
	June 1, 2010 - Summer Newsletter June-August 2010 Newsletter (Download)
	April 1, 2010 - Pascha/Spring Newsletter Mid-March-May 2010 Newsletter (Paschal Season) (Download)

Life of St. Raphael

As we celebrate the 115th Anniversary of our Mother Cathedral in 2010, 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:

1. Cover

2. Inside of Booklet

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