St. Tikhon of Moscow was the American bishop who embraced the Orthodox Church’s role in the North American continent — and then returned to Russia in ...
American Saints: St. Innocent of Alaska
St. Innocent of Alaska was a remarkable man with widely varied gifts — building, mechanics, natural sciences, anthropology, and languages — all of ...
American Saints: St. Jacob Netsvetov
St. Jacob (Yakov) Netsvetov was the first Alaskan Native ordained to the Orthodox priesthood. He spent his priesthood serving the Native peoples of ...
American Saints: St. Peter the Aleut
St. Peter the Aleut is an Alaskan saint who was martyred in California in 1815. As the story goes (many details are uncertain), he was an Alaskan ...
American Saints: St. Varnava (Nastić)
St. Varnava of Hvosno Unlike many of our American saints, St. Varnava was born in America—with the name Vojislav Nastić to a family of Serbian ...
American Saints: St. Matej Stiyachich
St. Matej Stiyachich St. Matej Stiyachich was born in 1883 in Herzegovina, part of what later became Yugoslavia. He was a married priest with ...
American Saints: St. Teofan (Beatovich)
St. Teofan (Beatovich) Of the three Serbian martyrs of the Iron Range, St. Teofan (Beatovich) lived the longest in northern Minnesota. He worked for ...
American Saints: St. Bogolyub Gakovich
St. Bogolyub Gakovich St. Bogolyub of Chisholm is one of three American saints from this iron-mining area around Lake Superior in the United States ...
American Saints: St. Seraphim of Uglich
St. Seraphim of Uglich St. Seraphim of Uglich was born Semyon Nikolayevich Samoilovich in the Poltava Province of what is now western Ukraine, in the ...
American Saints: St. Anatole (Kamensky) of Irkutsk
New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk St. Anatole was born Alexei Vasilevich Kamensky in Russia in 1863. After seminary training ...
