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"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint By: Peter Smith, The Associated Press Posted: 6:02 AM CDT Thursday, Jun. 26, 2025 Last ...

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Deacon Michael Lucius of Toronto visits the gravesite of Matushka Olga Michael in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 18, 2025, a day before she became the first female Orthodox saint in North America. In the ...

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. Orthodoxy — the ...

Now, after an elaborate ceremony in her village of about 800 people in southwestern Alaska, she is the first female Orthodox saint from North America, officially known as “St. Olga of Kwethluk ...

Most of the state’s Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are Alaska Natives. More than a dozen are from Kwethluk. A debate, now resolved, over Olga’s remains ...

Worshippers, including an Orthodox priest wearing a black cassock, walk on the dusty streets of Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, heading to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church for the canonization ...