Orthodox Churches in Seattle, Washington

St. Spiridon held its first service on September 18, 1895, for Greek, Russian, and Serb immigrants, in a church at 817 Lakeview Avenue; the Greek members formed a separate congregation in 1918. Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, on Capitol Hill, held its first Liturgy in 1939 after a dispute over English in sermons and Sunday school split an older Greek parish.

St. Spiridon's present church, in the Cascade neighborhood at the south end of Lake Union, was designated a cathedral in 1941, and the parish now belongs to the Orthodox Church in America. Russian émigrés, many of them former Tsarist naval officers, founded St. Nicholas parish in the 1930s; its church was consecrated in 1937 and designated a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the early 1960s. St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco died in Seattle in 1966, and the room where he died is now a chapel at the cathedral, used for English-language liturgies.