As the wife of an Orthodox Christian priest, she was a “matushka,” or spiritual mother to many more. Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American ...

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.

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — “St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America.

In November 2024, priests exhumed Olga’s body. Her remains are currently kept in an open casket in Kwethluk’s church, where pilgrims can venerate her shrouded relics. When the bishops of the Orthodox ...

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Also the Russian Orthodox church in 1956 published a Russian Bible in Moscow which contained these Books. [JBC, p. 524] More details from a scholarly Protestant viewpoint can be found in The New ...

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage recognized by the Orthodox Church in America, following the 19th century St. Peter the Aleut and St. Yakov Netsvetov of Alaska, who was of Aleut and ...