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Innocent of Alaska (Russian: Иннокентий; August 26, 1797 – 12 April [O.S. March 31] 1879), also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
Innocent (Pustynsky) (Russian: Иннокентий Пустынский, romanized: Innokentiy Pustynskiy; September 23, 1868 - December 3, 1937), born Alexander Dmitriyevich Pustynsky [1] (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Пусты́нский, romanized: Aleksándr Dmítriyevich Pustýnskiy) was an Eastern Orthodox bishop and the first vicar of the Vicarate of Alaska ...
Jacob Netsvetov (Russian: Яков (Иаков) Егорович Нецветов), Enlightener of Alaska, was an Alaskan Creole from the Aleutian Islands who became a priest of the Orthodox Church and continued the missionary work of Innocent for Alaska Natives. His feast day is celebrated on July 26, the day of his death. [1]
1867 Alaska purchased by the United States from Russia; [note 2] Bp. Paul (Popov) succeeds Bp. Peter. 1868 First Russian parish established in US territory in San Francisco, California; St. Innocent of Alaska becomes Metropolitan of Moscow. 1870 Diocese of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska formed by the Church of Russia with Bp.
Seraphim (Samoylovich) of Uglich, missionary in Alaska and hieromartyr under the Soviets; Teofan Beatović, hieromartyr; Tikhon of Moscow, was bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, missionary, then Patriarch of Moscow; Varnava Nastić, the New Confessor, born in Gary, Indiana; Anatoly (Kamensky), teach of St. Platon's Orthodox Theological Seminary
Saint Innocent may refer to: Pope Innocent I; Saint Innocent of Alaska; Saint Innocent, of the Theban Legion; Saint Innocent, a bishop of Tortona;
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The founding priest, Ivan Veniaminov, later canonized as Saint Innocent of Alaska, composed the first Aleut writing system with local assistance, and translated scripture into Aleut. Between 1836 and 1840, measles , chicken-pox and whooping-cough epidemics drastically reduced the population; thus, at the end of the decade, only 200 to 400 ...