Feast Day

July 2

The Church celebrates John of Shanghai and San Francisco on July 2.

John of Shanghai and San Francisco

John of Shanghai and San Francisco

June 4, 1896July 2, 1966

John of Shanghai and San Francisco was an Eastern Orthodox bishop credited with approximately 100 miracles, who guided thousands of Russian refugees across five continents while living as an ascetic himself. He arrived in Shanghai in 1934, fled the Communist takeover in 1949, and died in 1966 — his relics incorrupt to this day in San Francisco's Holy Virgin Cathedral.