St. Archangel Michael Skete is an Eastern Orthodox monastery on Spruce Island, Alaska.
St. Archangel Michael Skete is under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America.
[1][2] Kodiak Island is the place where the first Russian monastery on the North American continent was first erected in 1794 while still part of Imperial Russia.
Today, the North American saint's original dwelling is preserved by the monastics of St. Archangel Michael Skete, who are located in Sunny Cove on Spruce Island.
The primary means of transportation for the monks living in isolation from the mainland communities (since 1983) is a small aluminum skiff named the "Archangel".