In the centre of the town of Suceava is the Monastery of St. John the New and its Church of St. George. The church used to be the seat of the Metropolitanate of Moldavia from 1522 to 1593, and is nowadays the seat of the Archbishopric of Suceava and Rădăuţi. In 1402 Prince Alexander received from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Byzantine Emperor John VIII Paleologue the relics of St. John the New, which were placed in the church of Mirăuţi, the then Metropolitan church. The church must already by the end of the 15th century have been too small for the needs of the Metropolitanate, and in 1514 Bogdan III started the construction of a new seat, but never managed to complete it. His son Stefăniţă finished the construction work as soon as he ascended the throne. The Metropolitanate was transferred from the Church of Mirăuţi to the newly finished Church of St. George, but the relics of St. John the New were moved only in 1589 by Peter the Lame. The transfer of the capital to Iaşi at the beginning of the second reign of Alexandru Lăpuşneanu (1552-1561, 1564-1568) gradually led also to the transfer of the Metropolitanate towards the end of the 17th century. Starting from 1786, the church was a parish church, but then a monastery was created around it.

The interior paintings were cleaned and in part repainted. Architecturally speaking the Church of St. George is important. It is the only church of triconch plan erected in the period between the reigns of Stephen the Great and Petru Rareş. It is similar to the Church of the Ascension of Neamţ Monastery, which from many points of view is a synthesis of 15th century Moldavian religious architecture. The main difference is that the Metropolitan cathedral, not conceived as a burial church, was not built with a burial chamber. The church windows, of which there are fifteen, are in Gothic style. They all have pointed arches and receding carved stone frames, except the apse windows, which have round arches. Even the exonarthex windows are not very big, and the difference between these and the impressively tall windows of Probota and St. Demetrius is marked.