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Do you know the requirements for someone to be canonised in the Orthodox Church? I know the Catholic Church now requires at least 3 documented miracles. Is it the same for our Church?

There are a couple of documents online about this. One is What does "Glorification" Mean? by Fr. Alexy Young; another is The Glorification of Saints by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky.

An excerpt from Fr. Young's article:

Thus, in the case of St. Herman of Alaska, St. John of Kronstadt, and Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, after there had already been a long-standing private devotion to these saints among Orthodox believers, the bishops requested a formal investigation into the lives and miracles of these saints, in order to determine their sanctity for the whole of the Russian Church. This is not, however, a "test" of righteousness, but a search for and collecting of information about holiness, which rises far above simple righteousness. When, in the fullness of God's time, it is apparent to the Church authorities that an individual's life and works have been filled with the grace and glory of God, the bishops commission the writing of a service to that saint, the painting of an icon, and the establishment of a feast day on the calendar. I don't think there are any "requirements" in the legal sense, beyond what is mentioned in the above excerpt.

In Christ,
Mike