Alexis Toth

Saint Alexis of Wilkes-Barre
Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy
Born	Alexis Georgievich Toth March 14, 1853 Kobylnice, Austrian Empire (modern Slovakia)
Died	May 7, 1909 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized	1994 by Orthodox Church in America
Major shrine	Saint Tikhon's Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania
Feast	Commemorated on May 7

Alexis Georgievich Toth (Алексий Георгиевич Товт or Alexis of Wilkes-Barre; March 14, 1853 – May 7, 1909) was a Russian Orthodox church leader in the Midwestern United States who, having resigned his position as a Byzantine Catholic priest in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, became responsible for the conversions of approximately 20,000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church, which contributed to the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual establishment of the Orthodox Church in America. He was glorified by the Orthodox Church in 1994.