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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 ...
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.
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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]
With the world's annual celebration of his birth mere weeks away, it turns out one of the most revered figures who ever walked the Earth likely didn't look like the pictures of him.
Bishop Innocent created six parishes in Alaska, including one for the Kenai region. The first chapel was built that same year by the Russian-American Company near the village of Kenai within Fort St. Nicholas. The first priest to serve the parish, Igumen Nikolai Militov, arrived in 1844 and served until his death in 1869. [4]
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
Saint Innocent may refer to: Pope Innocent I; Saint Innocent of Alaska; Saint Innocent, of the Theban Legion; Saint Innocent, a bishop of Tortona;