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.
We will have a Gala Mother’s Day Hafli on Friday, May 9th at Russo's on the Bay. All proceeds will go to our building project. This year we will honor Dr. Marwan Atallah and the Salaam Club of New York as we celebrate our 130th anniversary. See the attached flier for details. We look forward to your support.
Click here for the flier!
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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.
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Click here for the schedule of Holy Week and Pascha services at the Cathedral for 2025. 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 9:00am. 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.
Please note His Eminence Metropolitan SABA will celebrate Lazarus Saturday Orthros and Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral and ordain our seminarian, Nicholas Aultman, to the diaconate. Please join us!
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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
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 March 2025.
Click here to download the file sorted by date
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