Alexis Toth

Alexis Georgievich Toth (also Alexis of Wilkes-Barre; March 14, 1853 – May 7, 1909) was a Ruthenian priest who later became a Russian Orthodox missionary in the United States.

He was born in the village of Kobylnice in Slovakia, near Prešov, belonging then to Sáros County of the Kingdom of Hungary (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Toth belonged to the Rusyn (Ruthenian) ethnic group that inhabited the Carpathian region.

Toth was originally a Greek Catholic priest. After being rejected by the American Catholic bishop John Ireland, he and many of his parishioners converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, leading to the reception of an estimated 20,000 Eastern Catholics into the Russian Orthodox Church. This movement significantly contributed to the growth of Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual formation of the Orthodox Church in America. He was glorified as a saint by the Orthodox Church in 1994.