John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker

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St. John Maximovitch

Our father among the saints John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896-1966), was a diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), serving widely, from China to France to the United States.

He departed this life on June 19 (O.S.) or July 2 (N.S.), 1966, and was officially glorified by the ROCOR on July 2, 1994. His feast day is not yet celebrated by all Orthodox churches, though many will nonetheless refer to him with the title Blessed or even Saint.


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Photo of St. John


Life

Born on Junje 4, 1896, in the Southern Russian village of Adamovka, he was given the baptismal name of Michael. He was educated at the Poltava Military School (1907-14), Kharkov Imperial University, from which he received a law degree (in 1918), and the University of Belgrade (where he completed his theological education in 1925). He was tonsured a monk in 1926 by Metropolitan Anthony of Kharkov (later the first primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia).


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