List of American Eastern Orthodox saints

Updated on Oct 11, 2024

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American Orthodox Saints

Alexander Hotovitzky, hieromartyr, Missionary of America

Alexis of Wilkes-Barre, Missionary, leader of ex-Uniates into Orthodoxy

Herman of Alaska, first missionary to Alaska

Innocent of Alaska, missionary bishop to Alaska

Jacob Netsvetov, native of the Aleutian Islands who became a priest

John Kochurov, first hieromartyr in 1917

John Maximovitch, ROCOR bishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, wonderworker

Juvenaly of Alaska, Protomartyr of America

Nikolaj Velimirović, influential theological writer and a highly gifted orator, rector of St. Tikhon's Seminary

Peter the Aleut, protomartyr of America

Raphael of Brooklyn, founder of the Antiochian Orthodox Mission in America

Tikhon of Moscow, was bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, missionary, then Patriarch of Moscow

Varnava Nastić, the New Confessor, born in Gary, Indiana

Unglorified

Persons under consideration (whether formal or informal) for glorification:

Abp. Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg, local saint of OCA Archdiocese of Canada

Bp. Gerasimos (Papadopoulos) of Abydos

Olga Michael, matushka in Alaska

Seraphim Rose, ROCOR hieromonk

Philaret Voznesensky, first hierarch of the ROCOR (1964 - 1985)

José Muñoz-Cortes, the keeper of the Iveron Icon of Montreal.

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