The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, operated under the more familiar name of Washington National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. Of Neo-Gothic design closely modeled on English Gothic style of the late fourteenth century, it is the sixth-largest cathedral in the world, the second-largest in the United States, and the highest as well as the fourth-tallest structure in Washington, D.C. The cathedral is the seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Bruce Curry, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde. In 2009, nearly 400,000 visitors toured the structure. Average attendance at Sunday services in 2009 was 1,667, the highest of all domestic parishes in the Episcopal Church that year.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, under the first seven Bishops of Washington, erected the cathedral under a charter passed by the United States Congress on January 6, 1893. Construction began on September 29, 1907, when the foundation stone was laid in the presence of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and a crowd of more than 20,000, and ended 83 years later when the "final finial" was placed in the presence of President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Decorative work, such as carvings and statuary, is ongoing as of 2011. The Foundation is the legal entity of which all institutions on the Cathedral Close are a part; its corporate staff provides services for the institutions to help enable their missions, conducts work of the Foundation itself that is not done by the other entities, and serves as staff for the Board of Trustees.
12.17.23 Washington National Cathedral Sunday Holy Eucharist – Worship Online
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-3-121723-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
published: 17 Dec 2023
12.24.23 Washington National Cathedral Sunday Holy Eucharist – Worship Online
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-4-122423-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT; CHRISTMAS EVE
Presider: The Rev. Patrick L. Keyser
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Rosemarie Logan Duncan
published: 24 Dec 2023
12.10.23 Washington National Cathedral Sunday Holy Eucharist – Worship Online
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-2-121023-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.
published: 10 Dec 2023
12.3.23 Washington National Cathedral Sunday Holy Eucharist – Worship Online
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Advent-1-120323-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
published: 03 Dec 2023
12.24.23 Christmas Eve Festival Holy Eucharist
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Eve-2023-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Join us for one of the most beautiful services of the year as we herald the Light made known to us on this holy night. We celebrate Christ’s birth with readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and seasonal choral and instrumental music.
This service includes Holy Communion. Incense will be used. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
published: 25 Dec 2023
11.26.23 Washington National Cathedral Sunday Holy Eucharist – Worship Online
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Christ-The-King-Sunday-112623-FINAL.pdf
published: 26 Nov 2023
12.19.23 Funeral of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OConnor-Sandra-Day-12192023-service.pdf
Washington National Cathedral is honored to host the funeral of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The American public is invited to join by livestream.
published: 19 Dec 2023
11.23.23 Thanksgiving Day Service at Washington National Cathedral
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https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving-Day-2023.pdf
“Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us.”
Join us on Thanksgiving Day amidst the beauty of God’s abundance as it fills the Cathedral nave. We gather to give thanks through word and song for the blessings of our lives.
published: 23 Nov 2023
Daily Mass | National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche
Join us everyday to celebrate daily Mass, livestreamed from the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche in St. Augustine, Florida.
published: 30 Dec 2023
12.24.23 Christmas Lessons & Carols
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Lessons-Carols-2023-FINAL.pdf
Readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and instrumental music carry us from Creation to the manger in Bethlehem, telling the ancient story of God’s continuing love as made known in Christ. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-3-121723-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship li...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-3-121723-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-3-121723-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-4-122423-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship li...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-4-122423-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT; CHRISTMAS EVE
Presider: The Rev. Patrick L. Keyser
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Rosemarie Logan Duncan
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-4-122423-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT; CHRISTMAS EVE
Presider: The Rev. Patrick L. Keyser
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Rosemarie Logan Duncan
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-2-121023-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship li...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-2-121023-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-2-121023-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Advent-1-120323-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our wor...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Advent-1-120323-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Advent-1-120323-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Eve-2023-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Join us for one of the most beautiful services o...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Eve-2023-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Join us for one of the most beautiful services of the year as we herald the Light made known to us on this holy night. We celebrate Christ’s birth with readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and seasonal choral and instrumental music.
This service includes Holy Communion. Incense will be used. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Eve-2023-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Join us for one of the most beautiful services of the year as we herald the Light made known to us on this holy night. We celebrate Christ’s birth with readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and seasonal choral and instrumental music.
This service includes Holy Communion. Incense will be used. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OConnor-Sandra-Day-12192023-service.pdf
Washington National Cathedral is honored to ...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OConnor-Sandra-Day-12192023-service.pdf
Washington National Cathedral is honored to host the funeral of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The American public is invited to join by livestream.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OConnor-Sandra-Day-12192023-service.pdf
Washington National Cathedral is honored to host the funeral of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The American public is invited to join by livestream.
Download service leaflet:
https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving-Day-2023.pdf
“Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you ha...
Download service leaflet:
https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving-Day-2023.pdf
“Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us.”
Join us on Thanksgiving Day amidst the beauty of God’s abundance as it fills the Cathedral nave. We gather to give thanks through word and song for the blessings of our lives.
Download service leaflet:
https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving-Day-2023.pdf
“Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us.”
Join us on Thanksgiving Day amidst the beauty of God’s abundance as it fills the Cathedral nave. We gather to give thanks through word and song for the blessings of our lives.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Lessons-Carols-2023-FINAL.pdf
Readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns...
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Lessons-Carols-2023-FINAL.pdf
Readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and instrumental music carry us from Creation to the manger in Bethlehem, telling the ancient story of God’s continuing love as made known in Christ. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Lessons-Carols-2023-FINAL.pdf
Readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and instrumental music carry us from Creation to the manger in Bethlehem, telling the ancient story of God’s continuing love as made known in Christ. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-3-121723-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-4-122423-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT; CHRISTMAS EVE
Presider: The Rev. Patrick L. Keyser
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Rosemarie Logan Duncan
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Advent-2-121023-FINAL.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Advent-1-120323-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist anchors our worship life and prepares us for the week ahead. The Cathedral’s soaring architecture will point your eyes toward heaven as prayers, preaching and music open our hearts to God. Our worship is based on the traditions of The Episcopal Church and features beloved hymns, a hybrid blend of traditional and contemporary music and the best in Cathedral preaching. All who seek a deeper relationship with God in Christ are welcome to receive Communion.
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Presider: The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith
Preacher: The Rev. Canon Dana Colley Corsello
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Eve-2023-FINAL-UPDATE.pdf
Join us for one of the most beautiful services of the year as we herald the Light made known to us on this holy night. We celebrate Christ’s birth with readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and seasonal choral and instrumental music.
This service includes Holy Communion. Incense will be used. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OConnor-Sandra-Day-12192023-service.pdf
Washington National Cathedral is honored to host the funeral of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The American public is invited to join by livestream.
Download service leaflet:
https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving-Day-2023.pdf
“Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us.”
Join us on Thanksgiving Day amidst the beauty of God’s abundance as it fills the Cathedral nave. We gather to give thanks through word and song for the blessings of our lives.
Download service leaflet: https://cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Christmas-Lessons-Carols-2023-FINAL.pdf
Readings from Holy Scripture, favorite hymns, and instrumental music carry us from Creation to the manger in Bethlehem, telling the ancient story of God’s continuing love as made known in Christ. ASL interpretation is offered for this service.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, operated under the more familiar name of Washington National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. Of Neo-Gothic design closely modeled on English Gothic style of the late fourteenth century, it is the sixth-largest cathedral in the world, the second-largest in the United States, and the highest as well as the fourth-tallest structure in Washington, D.C. The cathedral is the seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Bruce Curry, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde. In 2009, nearly 400,000 visitors toured the structure. Average attendance at Sunday services in 2009 was 1,667, the highest of all domestic parishes in the Episcopal Church that year.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, under the first seven Bishops of Washington, erected the cathedral under a charter passed by the United States Congress on January 6, 1893. Construction began on September 29, 1907, when the foundation stone was laid in the presence of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and a crowd of more than 20,000, and ended 83 years later when the "final finial" was placed in the presence of President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Decorative work, such as carvings and statuary, is ongoing as of 2011. The Foundation is the legal entity of which all institutions on the Cathedral Close are a part; its corporate staff provides services for the institutions to help enable their missions, conducts work of the Foundation itself that is not done by the other entities, and serves as staff for the Board of Trustees.
Carter’s funeral, held at the magnificent NationalCathedral, ...Watching the beautiful ceremony livestreamed on the National Cathedral website, presented without commentary, was a worshipful experience.
The two former presidents, despite having been exceptionally critical of each other during last year’s presidential election, were seen laughing and smiling as they whispered in the seated crowd at WashingtonNationalCathedral last week.