Ouzinkie, is a hamlet on Spruce Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 161, down from 225 in 2000.
Seraphim Rose, also known as Seraphim of Platina, was an American hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He translated Eastern Orthodox Christian texts and authored several works. His writings have been credited with helping to spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity throughout the West; his popularity equally extended to Russia itself, where his works were secretly reproduced and distributed by samizdat during the Communist era, remaining popular today.
Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was a prominent Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside 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 were attributed powers of prophecy, clairvoyance and healing. He is often referred to as "St. John the Wonderworker".
Platina is a small unincorporated community in Shasta County, California, approximately and equidistantly 40 miles (64 km) west of Redding and Red Bluff. Its population is 13 as of the 2020 census. Its ZIP code is 96076. Wired telephone numbers follow the pattern 530-352-xxxx.
The Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois is a monastery and professional theological school in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada. The school is a collocated facility with the monastery.
St. Paisius Orthodox Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox Christian women’s coenobitic community in Safford, Arizona which follows the traditional rule of Serbian monastic life. The monastery is situated in the High Sonoran Desert at the base of Mount Graham. The English-speaking monastery is now also under the jurisdictions of Kyrill of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). It has 320 acres of land, making it the fifth largest monastery among the 80 American Orthodox Christian monasteries.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America or Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica and Midwestern America is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese located in the midwestern region of the United States. Its headquarters are in Third Lake, Illinois. The diocese operates 69 churches and parishes in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America or Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese located in the western region of the United States. Its headquarters are in Alhambra, California. The primary mission of the Diocese of Western America is to preserve and foster the faith, heritage, traditions, and culture, and religious and national values of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and to provide spiritual guidance to more than 600,000 Serbian-Americans in almost 50 churches, parishes, monasteries and children's summer camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. It also covers the territory of Mexico.
Hieroschemamonk Leonid (Nagolkin) of Optina, also Leo of Optina, was a venerable elder of Optina Monastery and a founder of Optina's eldership.
The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America is a constituent and integral part of the one and only Serbian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate) and therefore the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in the Americas. It has five eparchies (dioceses), that were reorganized in 2009. It also has a central church council made up of diocesan bishops, and almost 220 churches, chapels, monasteries and sketes in the United States, Canada, and South and Central America.
St. Nilus Skete, founded in 1999, is a women's monastic institution of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. It is located on Nelson Island near Ouzinkie in Alaska, less than an hour's boat ride from Kodiak Island. St. Nilus Skete is the most remote of all 80 Orthodox Christian monasteries in North America. Their 50-acre island is inhabited only by the monastics. In the winter months when the ocean becomes rough, the nuns on St. Nilus Island can be left isolated from the rest of civilization for days and weeks at a time.
St. Pachomious Monastery is a women's monastic community located on Route 1 in Greenfield, Missouri, US. The monastery, named after Pachomius the Serb, is part of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America and under the omophorion of Bishop Longin (Krčo) of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America. The sisters within the community derive their income from donations, prayer ropes, and church candles. The monastery has a guest house dedicated to hospitality and a chapel open to guests.
St. Archangel Michael Skete is an Eastern Orthodox monastery on Spruce Island, Alaska. It is three miles away from Monk’s Lagoon, where Saint Herman of Alaska lived 200 years ago. He was called a saint by the people long before the church recognized him as such. St. Archangel Michael Skete is under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America.
St. Xenia Serbian Orthodox Monastery is a women's monastic community of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, located at 40500 Highway 36 West in Wildwood, California since its founding in 1980. It is under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. It is affiliated with the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California and St. Herman Press.
St. Mark Church Monastery also known as St. Mark's Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox Church monastery located in Sheffield, Ohio, now under the omophor of Bishop Irinej Dobrijević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America. The monastery church was initially modelled after the medieval Marko's Monastery in Skoplje in Northern Macedonia. Located just west of the monastery church is the St. Mark Church Cemetery. The patronal feast day of the monastery is 8 May.
