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[[File:Stnickkenosha.jpg|right|thumb|px200250px|St. Nicholas, 2014]] {| border="1" class="toccolours" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; clear:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%; width: 17em; text-align:center; border-collapse: collapse;"|-| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:150%;" | St. Nicholas Church|- style="vertical-align: top;"| '''[[Jurisdiction]]'''| Orthodox Church in America|- style="vertical-align: top;"| '''[[Diocese]]'''| Midwest|- style="vertical-align: top;"| '''[[Deanery]]'''| Chicago|- style="vertical-align: top;"|'''Status'''| Active|- style="vertical-align: top;"|'''Location'''| Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA|- style="vertical-align: top;"| '''Date Founded'''| 1912|- style="vertical-align: top;"|'''Liturgical language(s)'''| English|- style="vertical-align: top;"|'''Official website'''| [https://www.orthodoxkenosha.com/ Official Website]|}
St. Nicholas Church is a church of the [[Diocese]] of Chicago and the Midwest of the [[Orthodox Church in America|OCA]]. The parish was established in 1912, and the current church building, designed by Archpriest James Piateski, was completed in 1930, and since 1987 has been designated a Kenosha local landmark.
In 1916, a half-block lot was purchased, and the church hall was finished in 1918. It was also in 1918 that St. Nicholas was able to get its first full-time priest, Priest-Monk Peter Zaichencko.
St. Nicholas' second priest, Archpriest James Piateski, was also an architect, and he designed and oversaw the construction of the parish's church building, which was completed in 1930, and consecrated by Metropolitan [[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of the Russian Metropolia New York]] and [[Theophilus_(Pashkovsky)_of_San_Francisco|His Grace Theophilus (Feofil), Bishop Archbishop of Chicago]].
In 1973, a fire destroyed much of the church, and it took nine months to rebuild.
St. Nicholas celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
On Great and Holy Friday, 2015, an icon of St. Nicholas in the church began to weep, and wept for several hours. However, a bishop was not available to come to make canonical verification of this event.
==Clergy==
*Hieromonk [[Alexander (Cutler)]] 1974-1975
*[[V. Rev. Alexis W. Fedec]] 1975-2005
*[[Fr. Stephen J. Hrycyniak]] 2005-2019*[[Fr. Constantine Bodien]] 2019-2022*[[Fr. Joseph Whittaker]] 2023-present
==External links==
*[http://stnickskenoshaorthodoxkenosha.orgcom/ St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Kenosha, Wisconsin]*[http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/weeping-icon-kenosha/#i_5284 St. Nicholas Center - Weeping Icon in Kenosha, Wisconsin 2015]
[[Category:Churches|Nicholas]][[Category:USA Churches|Nicholas]][[Category:Wisconsin Churches|Nicholas]]