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Welcome to THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE THEOTOKOS | ST NICHOLAS ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL
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About our Cathedral
Although we celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2005, the Annunciation Orthodox Cathedral parish has roots going back to the turn of the century. As early as 1904 Ottawa was home to many immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. By 1955 a group of exiled Russians of Baltic and aristocratic descent, loyal to the Metropolia (now the Orthodox Church in America), formed the St. Nicholas Mission, latter purchasing an old protestant church building in an older area of Ottawa known as The Glebe.
In 1980 a number of parishioners from St. Nicholas left to form an English-speaking mission, Holy Transfiguration, ministering to the growing number of converts and second-generation Orthodox in the city.
By 1987 both parishes in Ottawa faced some difficult challenges for their futures, but found a way forward together in an amalgamation in 1988. The joining of the two parishes was a moving witness of reconciliation and faith, reuniting a mission to its mother church. The combined community was called Annunciation to the Theotokos/St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. In 1990 members of the Holy Epiphany Mission of the Antiochian Archdiocese also joined our community.
