List of American Eastern Orthodox saints

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
Mardarije Uskoković, Serbian bishop of North America; founder of St. Sava's Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois
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
Sebastian Dabović, first American-born Orthodox priest
Tikhon of Moscow, was bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, missionary, then Patriarch of Moscow
Varnava Nastić, the New Confessor, born in Gary, Indiana
Basil Martysz, Polish Orthodox priest who served parishes in Alaska, Canada, and Pennsylvania

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 Cortés, the keeper of the "Montreal" copy of the Panagia Portaitissa icon
Fr. Nicola Yanney, priest of Middle America during the 1800s.

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