Saint John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco
This Saturday, July 3, we commemorate our father among the saints John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco.
Saint John was bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who served widely from China to France to the United States. He departed this life on June 19/July 2, 1966, and was officially glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad on July 2, 1994. His glorification was later confirmed for universal veneration by the Patriarchate of Moscow on July 2, 2008.
New Diveyevo Convent, Spring Valley, New York, 1965. Archbishop John on a visit to his spiritual daughters from Shanghai, who became the first nuns of New Diveyevo. He is seen here with Fr. Adrian, the convent’s builder, and Fr. Adrian’s successor, Fr. Alexander