List: Russian Orthodox saints

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•  Herman of Alaska

  Saint Herman of Alaska (born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

  

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•  Raphael of Brooklyn

  Raphael of Brooklyn (November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents. He was first educated at the Damascus Patriarchal School that had become the leading Greek Orthodox institution of higher learning in the Middle-East under the leadership of Saint Joseph of Damascus.

  

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•  Peter the Aleut

  Cungagnaq (date of birth unknown - d. 1815) is venerated as a martyr and saint (as Peter the Aleut) by the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island, and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St. Herman's missionaries operating in the north.

  

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•  Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

  Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova) (In Russian Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна), (29 May /10 June, 1897 – 17 July 1918), (after 1900, Tatiana's birthday was celebrated on 11 June) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was born at the Petergof, Saint Petersburg. She was better known than her three sisters during her lifetime and headed Red Cross committees during World War I.

  

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•  Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

  Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), (June 18 1901 – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

  

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•  Tikhon of Moscow

  Saint Tikhon of Moscow (January 31 1865 – April 7, 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, was the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.

  

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•  Nicholas of Japan

  Saint Nicholas, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Japan, born Ivan Dimitrovich Kasatkin was a Russian Orthodox priest, monk, and saint. He introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church to Japan. The Orthodox cathedral of Tokyo, Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral, was informally named after him as Nikorai-do, first by the local community, and today nationwide, in remembrance of his work.

  

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•  John of Tobolsk

  Saint John of Tobolsk (1651–1715) was born in Uman, in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. He was the only one of the seven sons of Maxim Vasilkovsky Maximovitch to choose a career in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which service he was appointed Ekonom of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678. But since Theodore of Uglich wanted someone to succeed him as Bishop of Chernigov, he appointed John Archimandrite of the Eletsky monastery there in 1695.

  

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•  Sergius of Radonezh

  Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (Сергий Радонежский, Sergii Radonezhsky)—also translated as Sergey Radonezhsky or Serge of Radonezh was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most highly-venerated saints.

  

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•  Innocent of Alaska

  Saint Innocent of Alaska (August 26, 1797 - March 31, 1879), also known as Saint Innocent of Moscow (Russian Митрополит Инноке́нтий) was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. He is known for his missionary work, scholarship and leadership in Alaska and the Russian Far East during the 1800s. He is known for his great zeal for his work as well as his abilities as a scholar, linguist and administrator.

  

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•  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Saint John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896 - 1966) was a noted Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation and a reputed wonderworker to whom was attributed great powers of prophecy, clairvoyance and healing.

  

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•  Nil Sorsky

  Nil Sorsky (c. 1433 - 1508) was a leader of the Russian medieval movement opposing ecclesiastic landownership (known as the "Non-possessors"). Nil Sorsky is venerated as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. His feast day is on the anniversary of his repose on May 7.

  

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•  Pavel of Taganrog

  The Blessed starets Saint Pavel of Taganrog dramatically influenced the belief in God and spiritual outlook of inhabitants of Taganrog, Don Land, South of Russia and Ukraine. A plain layman, who lived in Taganrog in the 19th century, he conciliated love and worship of Russian Orthodox Christians, who flowed to him for a piece of advice and spiritual support. Pavel Pavlovich Stoykov was born on November 21, 1792 in Malorossia guberniya of the Russian Empire in a rich noble family.

  

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•  Alexander Svirsky

  Alexander Svirsky or Alexander of Svir - an Eastern Orthodox saint, monk and hegumen of Russian Orthodox Church. Amos was born to an ordinary peasant family in the Novgorod Republic, east of Ladoga. At the age of 19, he left home for Valaam monastery and spent further time of his life as monk, including some period of total isolation from society.

  

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•  Chinese Martyrs

  Chinese Martyrs is the name given to a number of members of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church who were killed in China during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They are celebrated as martyrs by their respective churches. Most were Chinese laity, but others were missionaries from various other countries; many of them died during the Boxer Rebellion. The Eastern Orthodox Church recognizes 222 Albazinians who died during the Boxer Rebellion as "Holy Martyrs of China".

  

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•  Innocent of Irkutsk

  St. Innocent of Irkutsk (c. 1680-November 27, 1731) was a missionary to Siberia and the first bishop of Irkutsk in Russia. In 1721 he was consecrated bishop of Pereyaslavl in preparation for his leadership of the Orthodox mission to China. As a bishop he was not permitted entry to China and was therefore appointed to the see of Irkutsk in 1727. He died in 1731 and was buried beneath the altar of the Tikhvin church of Ascension Monastery.

  

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•  Matryona Nikonova

  Matryona Dmitrievna Nikonova, the Blessed Elder of Moscow, (1885 – May 2, 1952), is a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  

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•  Canonization of the Romanovs

  Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei are saints of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and passion bearers of the Russian Orthodox Church. The family was murdered on July 17, 1918 in Ekaterinburg, Russia by the Bolsheviks. The family was canonized in 1981 as new martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. They were canonized along with their servants, who had been killed along with them.

  

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•  Benjamin of Petrograd

  

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•  Varvara Yakovleva

  Sister Varvara Yakovleva, also known as Sister Barbara Yakovleva, or simply Nun Barbara, (died July 18, 1918), was a Russian Orthodox nun in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna.

  

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•  Gavriil Belostoksky

  

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•  Saint Ambrose of Optina

  Venerable Ambrose of Optina was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in 1988 by the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  

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•  Barlaam of Kiev

  Barlaam of Kiev was an Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the first abbot of the monastery Kiev Pechersk Lavra, located in Kiev, Ukraine and served together with Anthony of Kiev. He is regarded as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, with a feast day of November 14, and of other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

  

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•  Vasily Gryaznov

  St Basil Gryaznov (1816 – February 16, 1869), also known as Holy Vasily, is a Russian saint, glorified in 1999 for living a righteous life.

  

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•  Sergius of Valaam

  Saint Sergius of Valaam was a Greek monk and wonderworker credited with bringing Orthodox Christianity to Karelian and Finnish people. Conflicting church traditions place him possibly as early as the 10th century or as late as the 14th. Church legends about St. Sergius of Valaam were not committed to writing until the 18th century.

  

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