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==Glorified==
 
'''American Orthodox [[Saints]]'''
 
 
 
*[[Alexander Hotovitzky]]
 
*[[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre]], leader of ex-[[Uniates]] into Orthodoxy
 
*[[Herman of Alaska]], first [[missionary]] to Alaska
 
*[[Innocent of Alaska]], missionary [[bishop]] to Alaska
 
*[[Jacob Netsvetov]]
 
*[[John Kochurov]]
 
*[[John Maximovitch]], Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco
 
*[[Juvenaly of Alaska]]
 
*[[Nikolai Velimirovic]], [[rector]] of [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon's Seminary]]
 
*[[Peter the Aleut]], [[protomartyr]] of America
 
*[[Raphael of Brooklyn]], founder of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America|Antiochian Archdiocese]]
 
*[[Tikhon of Moscow]]
 
*[[Varnava (Nastic)]], the New Confessor, born in Gary, Indiana
 
 
 
==Unglorified==
 
Persons under consideration (whether formal or informal) for [[glorification]]:
 
*Abp. [[Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg]]
 
*Bp. [[Gerasimos (Papadopoulos) of Abydos]]
 
*Br. [[Jose Munoz]]
 
*[[Seraphim Rose]], [[ROCOR]] [[hieromonk]]
 
*[[Olga Michael]], [[matushka]] in Alaska
 
 
 
==Feast of All Saints of North America==
 
The [[Orthodox Church in America]] remembers the saints of North America on the second Sunday after [[Pentecost]].
 
==Hymns==
 
[[Troparion]]  (Tone 8)
 
:As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation,
 
:The lands of North America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone in them.
 
:By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace
 
:Through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One.
 
 
 
[[Kontakion]] – (Tone 3)
 
:Today the choir of Saints who were pleasing to God in the lands of North America
 
:Now stands before us in the Church and invisibly prays to God for us.
 
:With them the angels glorify Him,
 
:And all the saints of the Church of Christ keep festival with them;
 
:And together they all pray for us to the Pre-Eternal God.
 
==External link==
 
[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsLife.asp?FSID=49 Synaxis of the Saints of North America] - [[OCA]] web site.
 
 
 
[[Category:American Saints|*]]
 
[[Category:Saints|American Saints]]
 

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