Orthodox Parish of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Amsterdam
About us
Welcome to the site of Saint Nicholas parish! We are an Orthodox Christian community in the Russian liturgical and spiritual tradition for more than 50 years. After many years with the Moscow Patriarchate, in 2022 our parish was received into the Exarchate of the Benelux of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Our diocesan bishop is Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium.
Our church is open to one and all. Feel free to come in, light a candle or just take a look around. Of course, the services are open to everyone as well. On Sundays we have hosts and hostesses to welcome visitors and show them the way.
After the Sunday service we share coffee and tea. This is the opportunity to ask questions, to visit the Information Centre to ask for information about parish activities. You can also register for the weekly bulletin or parish activities.
The church is open when there is a service. The schedule of services you can find here.
Schedule of services
Our services are alternately (mainly) in Dutch and Church Slavonic.
- The first and third Sunday of the month, the service is predominantly in Church Slavonic,
- the second and fourth in Dutch,
- if there is a fifth Sunday in the month, we also use some English
Schedule of Services
Saturday 21 February (8 February)
17:00 Panikhida. 17:30 Vigil: Tone 4. 4th Gospel, Luke 24:1-12
Sunday 22 February (9 February)
Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheese fare)
9:30 Hours. 10:00 Divine Liturgy: Romans 13:11-14:4; Matthew 6:14-21
12:00 Vespers of Forgiveness
Monday 23 February (10 February)
7:00 Matins and First Hour. 10:00 Typica and Vespers
19:00 Great Compline with the Canon of St Andrew of Crete
Tuesday 24 February (11 February)
7:00 Matins and First Hour. 10:00 Typica and Vespers
19:00 Great Compline with the Canon of St Andrew of Crete
Wednesday 25 February (12 February)
7:00 Matins and First Hour. 10:00 Typica and Vespers
19:00 Great Compline with the Canon of St Andrew of Crete
Thursday 26 February (13 February)
19:00 Great Compline with the Canon of St Andrew of Crete
Friday 27 February (14 February)
18:00 Confession.
19:00 Presanctified Liturgy: Genesis 2:20-3:20, Proverbs 3:19-34
Saturday 28 February (15 February)
17:00 Panikhida. 17:30 Vigil: Tone 5. 5th Gospel, Luke 24:12-35
Sunday 1 March (16 February)
1st Sunday of Great Lent, of Orthodoxy
9:30 Hours. 10:00 Divine Liturgy: Hebrews 11:24-26, 11:32-12:2; John 1:43-51
Announcements
Pan-Orthodox Liturgy in Rotterdam
Orthodox camp in Belgium 2026
Sunday School
The lessons in our Sunday School are for children aged 5 to 12 and take place on Sundays at the end of the Liturgy after Communion and last until approximately 12:30.
Dear parents, here is the Sunday School schedule for Spring 2026:
15 March 2026; 19 April 2026; 10 May 2026; 7 June 2026
Please save these dates.
On 3 August 2025, Father Oleg Karlashchuk passed away
The obituary can be read here.
Photos of Father Oleg can be found here.
Information center & bookshop
In the bookstore of our church you can find various Orthodox goods: icons, crosses, books, oil (consecrated), candlesticks, incense and coal, censers, rosaries, Orthodox calendars, etc. Volunteers working in the Orthodox Information Center can answer simple questions about the Orthodox faith and our church, or direct you to a priest.
From the Rector
Bulletin No. 359 – 5 January 2026
My dear Friends,
Happy New Year!
This Sunday, we are given one of the most unusual Gospel readings of the year: a genealogy, followed by a quiet, almost hidden, story of obedience. At first sight, it may seem like an odd choice – a list of names and a dream. Yet together they reveal something essential about how God enters human history.
Here is the text: (Matthew 1: 1–25)
An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Salathiel, and Salathiel the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.
