'''St. Nicholas Cathedral (Washington, D.C.)''' is the primatial [[cathedral]] of His Beatitude [[Jonah (Paffhausen) of Washington and New York|Jonah]], the [[Archbishop]] of Washington, [[Metropolitan]] of All America and Canada of the [[Orthodox Church in America]]. The office of the dean of the cathedral is currently vacant. Predecessors include the Very Rev. Constantine White has served as the dean of the cathedral since 1998, succeeding and the Very Rev. [[Dmitry Grigorieff]].  

The original [[parish]] was founded in 1930 as the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas. The liturgical life of the parish was held in various"house" [[church[[es houses until it could purchase its own property. In 1949 the purchaseSynod of Bishops of the then-Metropolia, named the parish to be the National War Memorial Shrine. This led to a national campaign to erect a monumental church in the capital of the United States. In 1951, of the property upon which the current cathedral standswas purchased. The substructure (basement) of the cathedral was completed in 1954 and was used for church services until the superstructure was completed in late 1962. In 1988 a bell tower was erected, commemorating the millennium of Christianity in Russia.

The cathedral is located at 3500 Massachusetts Ave NW at the corner of Edmund Street, in the District of Columbia.