Church History

Bishop Nikolai (Velimirovich) was the author of dozens of works in several languages. The most famous work is the thousand-page Prologue of …

St. Herman is arguably the best-loved saint of North America. A monk who traveled to Alaska in the overland journey of the first mission to America in …

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 …

St. Innocent of Alaska was a remarkable man with widely varied gifts — building, mechanics, natural sciences, anthropology, and languages — all of …

St. Jacob (Yakov) Netsvetov was the first Alaskan Native ordained to the Orthodox priesthood. He spent his priesthood serving the Native peoples of …

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 …

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 …

St. Matej Stiyachich St. Matej Stiyachich was born in 1883 in Herzegovina, part of what later became Yugoslavia. He was a married priest with several …

St. Teofan (Beatovich) Of the three Serbian martyrs of the Iron Range, St. Teofan (Beatovich) lived the longest in northern Minnesota. He worked for …

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 …