Orthodox Church in America
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The Orthodox Church in America is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 680 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the Un
The Albanian Orthodox Church in Worcester, Massachusetts
St. George the Great Martyr Orthodox Church, St. George Island, Alaska
Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, located in Lublin, Wisconsin
St. Michael's Cathedral, Sitka
Herman of Alaska
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Herman of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox monk and missionary to Alaska, which was then part of Russian America. He was the first saint of North America to be canonized by the Orthodox Church.
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…Rite Headquarters Springfield, Virginia, United States Territory United States Canada Mexico Possessions formerly Australia and South America Founder Herman of Alaska (as Russian Orthodox mission in Alaska) Innocent of Alaska (as Diocese of Kamchatka, the Kurile and Aleutian Islands) Irenaeus Bekish (as autocephalous…
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Grigory Shelikhov, the founder of the Kodiak Island settlement, invited the first Russian Orthodox missionaries to the New World.
Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel, built in 1898 over the site where Herman was buried on Spruce Island in December 1836. Located near Monk's Lagoon, in the immediate vicinity of St. Herman's hermitage.