Metropolitan Innocent narrative, [1860?]
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Innokentii, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1797-1879.
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Russian Orthodox priest who lived in the Aleutian Island s and took notes on native customs and religion. From the description of Notes on the Atka Aleuts and Koloshi, 1840. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42069042 Priest at Sitka and Unalaska, later Bishop of Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands and the Aleutians, and in 1868 was appointed Metropolitan by Emperor Alexander II. From the description of Papers of Saint Innokentii [Ivan Veniaminov] and others f...
Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska
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The first organized Christian missionary efforts in Alaska were the work of missionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church. During the period of Russian rule in Alaska and for many years after purchase by the U.S., that church served both as a Christianizing and an educational force. The first Orthodox mission was established in Kodiak in 1794. The first permanent see of the Orthodox Church in Alaska was established in 1840 in Sitka under Bishop Innocent (John Veniaminov). Under his supervision, ef...
