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 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. It is also the first community established by St. Raphael of Brooklyn in 1895. 2024 marks the 129th anniversary of our establishment by St. Raphael. If you would like more information, feel free to contact Father Thomas Zain, the Cathedral's Dean.
The following is the schedule of services for the Great Fast (excluding the regular Sunday Divine Liturgies) that begins on Monday, February 23 (actually sunset on the evening of February 22). Please use this as a guide for the times of the services. There are also some other minor changes this year like the Feast of the Annunication on March 25th which is a Wednesday this year. Please remember that we will have our weekly Friday night Lenten potlucks at 6:30pm prior to the Madeyeh (Akathist) services. We will post the Holy Week and Pascha schedule closer to Holy Week.
00001
Attached is the 2024 version of our Cathedral brochure that we give our to visitors. Click here to view the brochure and feel free to share it with others.
00002
Click here for the schedule of Holy Week and Pascha services at the Cathedral for 2026. The schedule begins with Lazarus Saturday and concludes with Pascha. It is printed in Arabic and English for your convenience. Confessions will be heard prior to and after Holy Week services, however, please come early in the week. No confessions will be heard before the Paschal Vigil on Saturday evening. Finally, there are three Pre-Sanctified Liturgies scheduled for Monday-Wednesday mornings of Holy Week at 10:00am. Monday and Wednesday's liturgy will be at St. Mary Church in Bay Ridge and Tuesday morning (along with all other services on those days and throughout Holy Week) will be at St. Nicholas.
If you would like to help offset the cost of our Holy Week and Paschal flowers, palms, prosfora bread and other items, please click here or Zelle your donation to stnickcathedral@gmail.com. Thank you for your support!
00003
Please join our new text reminder group for last minute notifications, changes of schedules, deaths, etc. This will be used sparingly. Please send a text to 81010 to join and put the following in the body of the messge:
#stnickcath
00004
The Antiochian Women of St. Nicholas Cathedral will hold their annual charity luncheon on Sunday, March 22 after the Divine Liturgy. Please see the attached flier for details. This charity lunch is part of an archdiocesean wide effort for this year's national project of the Antiochian Woman of "Fulfilling the Vision".
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 stnickcathedral@icloud.com to have it corrected. The attached file is current as of February 2026.
Click here to download the file sorted by date
