Orthodox pilgrims and clergy gather in the old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church cemetery to take part in the glorification ceremony for St. Olga in Kwethluk on June 19, 2025.

Now, after an elaborate ceremony in her village of about 800 people in southwestern Alaska, she is the first female Orthodox ... St. Olga’s sainthood is especially meaningful because many women ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America.

St. Olga’s sainthood is especially meaningful because many women canonized by the church have been ancient martyrs or nuns, said Carrie Frederick Frost, a professor of religion and culture at Western ...

About 150 devotees squeezed into the sanctuary of Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, whose golden onion domes rise above the village’s modest one-story homes.

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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America ...

St. Olga’s sainthood is especially meaningful because many women canonized by the church have been ancient martyrs or nuns, said Carrie Frederick Frost, a professor of religion and culture at ...

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in North America.

But since it reopened as a convent in 2001, its Christian Orthodox nuns have fashioned 1,700 incredibly detailed mitres, Efimija said. Although mitres are worn by the Catholic pope, and by bishops and ...