On April 30, 2026, upon arriving in the USA, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Temporary Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, visited Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and the Port of St. Peter the Apostle in Los Angeles. According to new findings by church researchers of the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America, it was at this place that the Orthodox Aleut Peter was captured by the Spanish inhabitants of Mission San Gabriel and, refusing to renounce Orthodoxy, was tortured to death. The podvig of the Martyr Peter the Aleut was described by St. Herman of Alaska; previously, however, Mission Dolores in San Francisco had been named as the place of his martyrdom.
Bishop Matthew offered a prayer to the Martyr Peter and all the saints who shone forth in the American land, and commemorated all the Orthodox Christians who labored for the sake of Orthodoxy in North America.
