John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker

Hierarch

Commemorated June 19

Our father among the saints John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896-1966), was a diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) who served widely from China to France to the United States.
He departed this life on June 19 ( O.S. ) / July 2 ( N.S. ), 1966, and was officially glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad on July 2 , 1994. His glorification was later recognized for universal veneration by the Patriarchate of Moscow on July 2, 2008.