elcome to the Community of St Nicholas

Services for Orthodox Holy Week

May 1st 2024: Holy Wednesday: service of Holy Unction: 18:00
May 2nd 2024: Holy Thursday: service of the twelve Gospels of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18:00
May 3rd 2024: Holy and Great Friday: service of the Procession of the Shroud: 17:00 (It is traditional to bring flowers with you)
May 4th 2024: Holy and Great Saturday: service of the Vigil with procession: 22:00 start, followed by Easter Matins and Divine Resurrection Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. Please bring food for our common festal meal of the Resurrection after the Liturgy. Also, you can bring Pasha with you for a blessing

The Community of St Nicholas is a small Orthodox congregation in Central Scotland, based in Dunblane, near the towns of Stirling, Perth and Falkirk, and with rail links to Glasgow and Edinburgh. We worship in a converted one-storey cottage in the historic town of Dunblane in central Scotland. Some of us are British, others are of other national backgrounds. Services are mostly in English.

Our community is friendly, and visitors are very welcome. We are small in numbers, but with a great vision for an Orthodoxy that is embedded in the culture of these islands.

Our church building, a converted cottage

Icons on an icon stand

Our priest-in-charge is Archpriest Alexander Williams. He is assisted by Father Janis Stumbris. Our community belongs to the The Deanery of Great Britain and Ireland, within the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Our archbishop is Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, and our bishop is Bishop Raphael of Ilion, who is based in Edinburgh.