Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice

Cathedral of Saint Nicholas Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas
St. Nicholas' Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Religion
Affiliation	Russian Orthodox
District	Russian Orthodox Church/Korsun diocese
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Cathedral
Location
Location	Nice, France
Geographic coordinates	43°42′14″N 7°15′14″E / 43.70389°N 7.25389°E / 43.70389; 7.25389
Architecture
Type	Church
Groundbreaking	1903
Completed	1912

The St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Nice (French: Cathédrale Orthodoxe Saint-Nicolas de Nice, Russian: Николаевский собор, Ницца) is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral located in the French city of Nice. Property of the Russian Federation, it is recognized as a national monument of France, and it currently belongs to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Western Europe.

The cathedral was opened in 1912, thanks to the generosity of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II. From 1931 until 15 December 2011 (after a longstanding legal dispute over ownership was resolved),^[1] the parish that occupied the cathedral was part of the Paris-based Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe under the jurisdiction of the Church of Constantinople. After 2011, following a final ruling by France's highest court, the Court of Cassation, the cathedral was declared to be property of the Russian state, and the congregation came under the jurisdiction of the Korsun diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.