St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Monastery

In 1963, the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood was founded with the blessing of St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) as a missionary brotherhood for the dissemination of the Orthodox Faith, primarily through the printed word. The brotherhood chose as its patron a holy missionary monk of the American land, Fr. Herman of Alaska, who would later be glorified as a saint of the Orthodox Church. In 1969 the brotherhood move...