Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection

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We invite you to visit and make your spiritual home with us!

Welcome to the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection and Chapel of St. Innocent of Irkutsk, one of the main places of Orthodox worship in New York City.

We are a welcoming community with a great diversity of people, young and old, native New Yorkers, transplants, and immigrants. We are united in a community that believes that we can experience God's love and sustaining presence in our lives. We seek to acquire the Holy Spirit through the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures and the the life and activity of the Church as His continuing presence in the world.

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Interior Photos of the Cathedral

Interior

Sanctuary/Bema

Vestibule

St. Innocent's Chapel

About the Orthodox Church in America

We are not a colony of a foreign church, seeking to duplicate here what the Mother Church elsewhere can do much better at home. We are not an ethnic club, seeking to preserve Old World customs, languages or cuisines. We are not in exile from somewhere else, a Diaspora that needs direction from a distant homeland.

We are Orthodox Christians in America, convinced that America needs Orthodoxy as the fullness of her Christian vocation, that without Orthodoxy, American Christianity and America herself will remain unfulfilled, and the world, the whole planet will suffer from America’s spiritual deficiencies and “incompleteness.” We must offer [all Americans] the completeness, the wholeness of the Orthodox Faith, not to preserve any ethnic heritage, not to replicate an ancient but alien cultural tradition, but to save this country... and to make America “all that it can be,” sanctified by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit in His Holy Church.
-Archpriest Michael Oleksa, Alaskan Diocese

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Please join us for these upcoming Services

Thursday, July 2nd
6:00 9th Hour/Vespers

Saturday, July 4th
5:30 Great Vespers

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Thank you to everyone who used the
Special Summer Appeal envelope
to help us defray the extra cost of
air-conditioning the church,
and to continue to meet our other responsibilities!
God repay you!

Contact Information

Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection
59 East Second Street
New York, NY 10003
Phone/Fax: (212) 677-4664

Email: ccalin@nyc.rr.com