Orthodox Saints of America
The Orthodox Church in America remembers all the saints of North America on the second Sunday after Pentecost andHoly Trinity Ashburn is an all-English OCA community in precisely this tradition of American Orthodox witness.
Missionary Saints of Alaska
St. Herman of Alaska — Feast: Aug. 9 | Canonized 1970 (OCA) First Orthodox missionary to Alaska; reposed on Spruce Island.
St. Innocent of Alaska (Veniaminov) — Feast: Oct. 6 | Canonized 1977 Missionary bishop to Alaska.
St. Jacob Netsvetov — Feast: Jul. 26 | Canonized 1994 (OCA) Native of the Aleutian Islands who became a priest and missionary.
St. Juvenaly of Alaska — Feast: Sep. 24 | Canonized 1980 Protomartyr of America, killed in Quinahgak, Alaska c. 1796.
St. Peter the Aleut — Feast: Sep. 24 | Canonized 1980 Protomartyr of America; died in California, 1815.
St. Olga of Alaska (Michael) — Feast: Oct. 27 | Canonized June 19, 2025 (OCA) Wife of an Orthodox priest in Kwethluk; the most recently canonized American saint.
Saints of the American Missionary Diocese
St. Tikhon of Alaska — Feast: Oct. 9 | Canonized 1989 Bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, then all of North America.
St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre (Toth) — Feast: May 7 | Canonized 1994 (OCA) Led 20,000 Greco Catholics into Orthodoxy in Pennsylvania.
St. Raphael of Brooklyn — Feast: Feb. 27 | Canonized 2000 (OCA) Founder of the Antiochian Orthodox mission in America; died in Brooklyn, 1915.
St. Alexander Hotovitzky — Feast: Dec. 4 | Canonized 1994 Served as a priest in the United States; built St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, N.Y. later martyred by Bolsheviks.
St. John Kochurov — Feast: Oct. 31 | Canonized 1994 Served as a priest in the United States build Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago IL; first hieromartyr of 1917 by Bolsheviks.
St. Anatoly (Kamensky) — Feast: Sep. 20 | Canonized. Headed a missionary school in Minnesota; later martyred in the Soviet Union.
Hierarchs Who Served in America
St. John Maximovitch (of Shanghai and San Francisco) — Feast: Jul. 2 | Canonized 1994, bishop of Shanghai and San Francisco; great wonderworker; died in Seattle, 1966.
St. Nikolaj Velimirović — Feast: Mar. 18 & May 3 | Canonized 2003 (SOC) Influential theologian and orator; rector of St. Tikhon’s Seminary in Pennsylvania; died in the United States, 1956.
St. Mardarije Uskokovich — Feast: Dec. 12 | Canonized 2015 (SOC) Serbian bishop of North America; founder of St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois; died in Ann Arbor, 1935.
American-Born Saints
St. Sebastian Dabovich — Feast: Nov. 30 | Canonized 2015 (SOC) First American-born Orthodox priest; born in San Francisco, 1863.
St. Varnava Nastić — Feast: Nov. 12 | Canonized 2005 (SOC) Born in Gary, Indiana, 1914; later a Serbian bishop and confessor.
Saints with American Connections (served here before martyrdom elsewhere)
St. Seraphim (Samoylovich) of Uglich — Feast: Nov. 4 | Canonized 2000 Served as a priest in America; later martyred in the Soviet Union.
Sts. Bogolyub Gakovich & Matej Stijačić — Canonized 2004 (SOC) Both served as priests in the United States in the 1920s–30s before being martyred at the Jadovno concentration camp.
St. Bazyli Martysz — Feast: May 4 | Canonized 2003 (Polish Orthodox Church) Served as a priest in Alaska, Canada, and Pennsylvania from 1900–1912; later martyred in Poland.
The most recent addition is St. Olga of Alaska, glorified just this past June 2025 — still very fresh in the life of the Church.