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[[Image:Olhovsky.jpg|right|thumb|Hieromonk Nicholas on the night of his tonsure into the Little Schema.|250px]]Bishop '''Nicholas (Olhovsky)of Manhattan''' ({{lang-ru|Николай Александрович (Ольховский)}}) is a [[hieromonkbishop]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]] and Caretaker of the [[Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign]]<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2014/20140319_ensynodroc.html The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Confirms the Election of Priest Nicholas Olhovsky as Bishop of Manhattan by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad]</ref>, who . He was nominated on [[December 9]], 2013 by the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR as a candidate for the vacant Manhattan cathedra of the [[Diocese of Eastern American and New York (ROCOR)|Diocese of Eastern American and New York]]<ref>[http://eadiocese.org/News/2014/march/bn.en.htm Moscow: Holy Synod of Russian Orthodox Church approves Election of New Bishop of Manhattan, Vicar of Eastern American Diocese]</ref>. This was , and confirmed on [[March 19]], 2014 by the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]<ref>[http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3609112.html ЖУРНАЛЫ заседания Священного Синода от 19 марта 2014 года]</ref>.

Nicholas Alexandrovich Olhovsky ({{lang-ru|Николай Александрович Ольховский}}) was born on December 17, 1974 in Trenton, New Jersey to Soviet refugees Alexander Nikolaevich and Evdokia Grigorievna (née Rusinovich) Olhovsky fleeing the USSR during World War II. The Olhovsky family were parishioners of the Church of the Holy Dormition. He graduated from the St. Alexander Nevsky Parochial School in Howell, NJ, in 1991; and from Hamilton West High School in 1993. Nicholas received a [[:w:Bachelor of Theology|Bachelor of Theology]] degree from [[Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (Jordanville, New York)|Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary]] in Jordanville, New York, in 1998, during which time he executed obediences in book-binding, iconography, and typography until 2002. In 1994, Nicholas was tonsured a [[reader]] by Bishop [[Hilarion (Kapral) of Manhattan]] on the feast of the [[Dormition of the Theotokos]] in Trenton. He received a Bachelors in Communication & Information Design from the State University of New York Institute of Technology in 2000.

In December 2010, Fr. Nicholas was appointed Caretaker of the Kursk-Root icon<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/engdocuments/enart_priestnicholasolhovskyinterviewkurskicon.html "Faith Lives in the People, Therefor the Nation Lives"]</ref>, and in January 2011, appointed a clerlic of the Synodal Cathedral of the Mother of God of the Sign in Manhattan and granted residence in the Synod building. He again accompanied the icon to the Diocese of Kursk and also the [[Metropolia of Kazakhstan]] in September 2011, traveling in November again to Australia, and on December 11 was elevated to [[protodeacon]]. Within a year on August 1, 2012, Fr. Nicholas was ordained to the [[priesthood]] by Metropolitan Hilarion at the dedication of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov as a Memorial Church to the Re-Establishment of Unity in the Russian Church<ref>[http://eadiocese.org/News/2012/aug/seacliff.en.htm Sea Cliff, NY: Metropolitan Hilarion led the Patronal Feast of St. Seraphim Memorial Church to the Re-Establishment of Unity in the Russian Church]</ref> and was awarded the [[nabedrennik]].

The Kursk-Root icon traveled a third time to Ukraine and Russia in September 2012 with Fr. Nicholas, visiting with Archbishop [[Mark (Arndt) of Berlin]] the Dioceses of Samara<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2012/20120917_print_enkurskiconsmara.html Samarans Venerate the Main Holy Icon of the Russian Church Abroad]</ref>, Kursk and Perm<ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2012/20121001_print_enkurskiconperm.html The Kursk-Root Icon Will Visit the Perm Diocese]</ref>; and in December to Seattle and Hawaii of the [[Diocese of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR)|Diocese of San Francisco and Western America]]. He was awarded the [[kamilavka]] and gold [[pectoral cross]] on January 6, 2013, by the Synod of Bishops, and a few months latedaccompanied later accompanied the Kursk-Root Icon to the Montreal and Canadian Diocese. In November 2013, was a delegate accompanying the Icon to Japan and to the Primorsk Metropoliate of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2013, he accompanied Archbishop [[Kyrill (Dmitrieff) of San Francisco]] and the Kursk Root Icon to the Diocese of Montreal and Canada, the [[Church of Japan]], and the Metropolia of Primorye<ref>[http://www.vladivostok.eparhia.ru/society/publikazii/?ID=12409 "Люди открыли свои души..."]</ref><ref>[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2013/20131120_endelegationuchilische.html A ROCOR Delegation Meets With Students of Vladivostok Theological School and Local Society]</ref>.

On April 4, 2014, after co-serving an [[akathist]] before the icon of the [[Protection of the Mother of God]] containing a [[relic]] of the [[Theotokos]]'s belt, Fr. Nicholas was tonsured into the [[Monastic Ranks|Little Schema]] at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. He was given the name 'Nicholas' in honor of St. [[Nicholas of Japan]].<ref>[http://eadiocese.org/News/2014/apr/tonsure.en.htm Jordanville, NY: Priest Nicholas Olhovsky, elected Bishop of Manhattan, Tonsured a Monk in Holy Trinity Monastery]</ref>

The consecration will take took place during a meeting of the Synod in San Francisco celebrating the 20th anniversary of the [[glorification]] St. [[John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker]].