List of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church

Alphabetical list

A

• Abraham and Coprius of Gryazovets, founders of the monastery in Gryazovets
• Abraham the Laborious, 12th- and 13th-century monks from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
• Abraham of Bulgaria, Muslim-born convert from Volga Bulgaria, killed for his conversion, martyr
• Abraham of Galich, hegumen, founder of four monasteries on Lake Chukhloma in Kostroma Oblast
• Abraham of Mirozha, a 12th-century abbot of the Mirozhsky Monastery at Pskov
• Abraham of Rostov, founder of the Abraham Epiphany Monastery in Rostov
• Abraham of Smolensk, 12th-century monk and icon-painter, justified by a miracle and acquitted against the charges leveled against him
• Adrian of Poshekhonye, monk and iconographer, the founder and first hegumen of the Dormition Monastery in Poshekhonye
• Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, 11th-century monk and doctor from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, who healed Prince Vladimir Monomach
• Alexander Hotovitzky, Orthodox missionary in the United States, martyr executed by Bolsheviks
• Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, known for his command during the Battle of the Neva and the Battle of the Ice, patron saint and considered by a poll to be the greatest person in Russian history
• Alexander Schmorell, martyr, one of White Rose founders, he was active against Germany's Nazi regime.
• Alexander Svirsky, monk in the Valaam Monastery and the founder of Alexander-Svirsky Monastery
• Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Tsarina, killed during the Russian Civil War with all her family; recently the whole family were beatified as new-martyrs.
• Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, the only son of Nicholas II of Russia and the last Tsarevich of Russia.
• Alexis of Wilkes-Barre, a missionary in the American Midwest who converted approximately 20,000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church
• Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', de facto regent of Moscow during Prince Dmitry Donskoy's minority
• Alypius of the Caves, 11th-century monk from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, one of the first Russian icon painters
• Ambrose of Optina, starets of the Optina Monastery, founder of the Shamordino Convent
• Ambrosius Gudko, bishop of Sarapul and Yelabuga before the Russian Revolution of 1917
• Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II of Russia.
• Andrew Rublev, most famous Russian icon-painter, author of the Trinity
• Andronic Nikolsky, archbishop of Perm, hieromartyr killed during the Russian Revolution of 1917
• Anna of Kashin, medieval princess, wife of Mikhail of Tver, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives, having lost all her relatives due to wars with the Golden Horde
• Anthony, John, and Eustathios, martyrs executed by pagan Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas
• Anthony of Kiev, co-founder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the first monastery in Kievan Rus'
• Anthony of Siya, founder of the Antonievo-Siysky Monastery
• Arsenius Matseyevich, archbishop of Rostov who protested against the confiscation of the church's land by Empress Catherine II in 1764, was deprived of his office and imprisoned in a fortress until his death
• Artemius of Verkola, 16th-century child saint whose body showed no sign of decay
• Athanasius of Brest, martyr killed by Catholics for opposition to the Union of Brest in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Athanasius Sakharov, bishop of Kovrov, leader of Catacomb Church, who joined the Russian Orthodox Church in 1945

  B

• Barbara Yakovleva, nun and sister of mercy in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, killed by the Bolsheviks along with several Romanov Princes
• Barlaam of Chikoy, 19th-century missionary in Transbaikal
• Barlaam of Kiev, the first abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
• Barlaam of Khutyn, founder of the Khutyn Monastery in the Novgorod Republic
• Barsanuphius of Optina, archimandrite, starets of Optina Pustyn
• Basil the Blessed, fool for Christ who gave his name to St. Basil's Cathedral on the Red Square
• Basil Kalika, 14th-century icon-painter and Archbishop of Novgorod who was elected by the veche and reinvigorated the office
• Basil of Pavlovsky Posad, mid-19th-century factory worker who turned multiple Old Believers into Russian Orthodoxy
• Benjamin of Petrograd, metropolitan of Petrograd
• Boris and Gleb, children of Vladimir the Great, the first saints canonized by the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus', a predecessor of the Russian Orthodox Church

  C

• Charitina of Lithuania, noblewoman from the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania who became a nun in Novgorod
• Constantine of Murom, 11th-century Prince of Murom who baptized Muromian pagans
• Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', who briefly united the churches of the Principality of Moscow and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Cyrill of Turov, bishop of Turov, one of the first and finest theologians and writers of Kievan Rus'

  D

• Daniel of Moscow, the first Prince of Moscow, founder of the first Muscovite monasteries
• Daumantas of Pskov, prince of Pskov who made the city autonomous from the Novgorod Republic, defended Pskov from the Livonian Order
• Demetrius Donskoy, Prince of Moscow who commanded the winning side in the 1380 Battle of Kulikovo
• Demetrius of Rostov, a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox Church promoted by Theofan Prokopovich and Peter I, major religious writer
• Demetrius of Uglich, son of Ivan the Terrible, mysteriously died or killed, later impersonated by the impostors False Dmitry I and False Dmitry II during the Time of Troubles

  E

• Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, senior sister of the last Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, became a prominent nun after her husband was killed by revolutionaries, founded the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
• Ephraim of Pereyaslavl, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' in the late 11th century
• Epiphanius the Wise, a monk from Rostov, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, hagiographer of Saint Sergius and Saint Stephen of Perm
• Eudoxia of Moscow, wife of Dmitry Donskoy, healer, founded the Ascension Monastery and the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the oldest surviving building in Moscow
• Euphrosyne of Polatsk, granddaughter of a prince of Polotsk, Vseslav, owner of Cross of Saint Euphrosyne
• Euphrosynus of Pskov, 15th-century monk from Snetogorsky Monastery who founded a monastic community near Pskov
• Euthymius II of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod in the 15th century, major patron of arts

  F

• Feodor Kuzmich, starets who according to a legend was in fact Alexander I of Russia who faked his death to become a hermit
• Fyodor Ushakov, the most illustrious Russian admiral of the 18th century, who did not lose a single ship in 43 battles

  G

• Gabriel of Belostok, 17th-century child saint
• Gennadius of Novgorod, compiled the first complete codex of the Bible in Slavic, the Gennady Bible
• German of Kazan and Svyazhsk, second bishop of Kazan
• Gury of Kazan, prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church who became the first Archbishop of Kazan and Svyazhsk

  H

• Herman of Alaska, one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, patron saint of the Americas
• Herman of Solovki, one of the founders of the Solovetsky Monastery
• Herman of Valaam, preached Christianity to Karelians and Finns, co-founder of the Valaam Monastery
• Hermogenes Dolganyov, hieromartyr, Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, killed during the Russian Revolution
• Hilarion of Kiev, the first non-Greek Metropolitan of Kiev, the author of the Sermon on Law and Grace, one of the earliest Slavonic texts known
• Hilarion Troitsky, archbishop of Vereya, considered to be one of the greatest Russian theologians of the early 20th century

  I

• Igor II of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev turned monk, martyr
• Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, a member of the Romanov family, killed by Bolsheviks
• Ilia Muromets, a medieval warrior, and in later life a monk of Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
• Ignatius Bryanchaninov, bishop of Caucassus, major 19th-century spiritual writer
• Innocent of Alaska, a missionary to Alaska and Metropolitan of Moscow.
• Innocent of Irkutsk, a missionary to Siberia and the first bishop of Irkutsk
• Ioakim Korsunianin, the first bishop of Novgorod the Great and builder of the original wooden Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
• Irenarch of Rostov, a 16th-century hermit of Rostov, mystic and visionary, a companion of John the Hairy
• Isaiah of Rostov, 11th-century missionary, the second bishop of Rostov

  J

• Jacob Netsvetov, a Russian native of the Aleutian Islands who became a priest and missionary among Alaskan peoples
• Joasaph of Belgorod, an 18th-century bishop of Belgorod, canonized in 1911 for the miraculous cures attributed to his relics
• Job of Maniava, defender of Russian Orthodoxy in Ukraine, the founder of Manyava Skete
• Job of Pochayiv, defender of Russian Orthodoxy in Ukraine, a prominent hegumen and builder of Pochayiv Lavra
• John the Hairy, 16th-century yurodivy, a companion of Irenarch of Rostov
• John Kochurov, early 20th-century Orthodox missionary to the United States, later hieromartyr killed by Bolsheviks during the October Revolution
• John of Kronstadt, patron saint of St Petersburg, mystic and religious writer
• John of Moscow, fool-for-Christ and wonderworker of Moscow during the reign of Boris Godunov
• John of Novgorod, highly venerated 12th-century Archbishop of Novgorod
• John of Pskov, a hermit living in Pskov at the turn of the 16th to 17th century
• John the Russian, one of the most renowned saints in the Greek Orthodox Church, 18th-century Russian prisoner of war in the Ottoman Empire, wonderworker respected even by Muslims
• John of Shanghai and San Francisco, wonderworker, archbishop and most known missionary of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
• John of Tobolsk, founder of Chernigov Collegium, missionary in Siberia and metropolitan bishop of Tobolsk
• Jonah of Manchuria, diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who served in Northern China in the years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution
• Jonah of Moscow, the first independent Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia appointed without the approval of the Patriarch of Constantinople
• Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist, founder of Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
• Juliana of Lazarevo, 16th-century saint, famous for helping poor and needy people, protagonist in the book written by her son
• Juvenaly of Alaska, Protomartyr of America, a member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries to Alaska killed by Yupik natives