Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America, Diocese of Alaska Records 1733-1938

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Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America, Diocese of Alaska Records 1733-1938

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Principally ecclesiastical records relating to the administration of the numerous parishes and chapels of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, and, to a lesser extent, in Canada and the United States, comprising correspondence, registers of births, marriages, and deaths, confession and communion records, a clergy dossier, orders and edicts (ukases) from imperial and ecclesiastical authorities, financial records, diaries and travel journals, photographs, printed matter, and other material. Includes material relating to missionary work among the Tlingit Indians; Russian administration of Alaska through the bureaucracy of the church; schools and education; the Russian-American Company; and papers of various church officials, including Tikhon Bellavin, Evdokim Meshcherskii, and John S. Kedrovsky.

87,000 items; 748 containers plus 23 oversize; 326 linear feet; 402 microfilm reels

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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