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	Innocent of Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Innocent of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia.
		Saint Innocent was born Ivan (John) Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov on August 26, 1797 into the family of a church server in the village of Anginskoye, Verkholensk District, Irkutsk province, in Russia.
		On December 15, 1840, Archimandrite Innocent Veniaminov was consecrated Bishop of Kamchatka and Kuril Islands in Russia and the Aleutian Islands in Russian America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Innocent_of_Alaska (878 words)

	St. Innocent of Moscow Russian Orthodox Church - BIOGRAPHY
		It was in heretofore unknown Alaska and the Aleutian and Commander Islands, dispersed in the vast waters of the Pacific, that the all-holy name of God was glorified through the apostolic ministry of a yet little-known priest from Irkutsk by name of Ioann Veniaminov.
		Innocent was born on 26 August 1797 at the remote village of Anginskoye, Irkutsk Province, to the poor family of the local church's sexton.
		On 5 April 1879 Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow and Kolomna of the blessed memory was buried at St., Sergius' Monastery of the Trinity.
	www.saintinnocent.net /innocentbio.html (3278 words)

	Saint Innocent Orthodox Church-Life of St Innocent
		Saint Innocent was born as John Popov on August 26, 1797 in Aginsk, a small village near Irkutsk, Siberia.
		Saint Innocent wrote of the need for English to be used in the parishes and for Americans to be ordained to the priesthood.
		Saint Innocent was officially glorified and listed among the saints by the Orthodox Church in America on October 6, 1977.
	www.stinnocenteureka.org /STIlife.htm (1064 words)

	Selected Lives of
		Saint Barbara informed him that his gods had no power to perform such a miracle and that Christ, the Son of God, was responsible for her salvation.
		Saint Basil said, "Blessed is the God of the Christians, now and forever and unto ages of ages." Suddenly, the locks on the doors fell off and the doors swung open.
		Saint Ephraim was to pray for the forgiveness of that one.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints_different_e.htm (23158 words)

	Orthodox Icon of St. Innocent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		O Holy Hierarch Father Innocent, Enlightener of Alaska and Apostle to America, whose steps were ordered by the Lord.
		Innocent was born in Siberia on August 26, 1797, and was named John Popov.
		Metropolitan Theodosius, in 1997, characterized St. Innocent as a "renaissance man", as he designed churches, sewed his own vestments, built furniture and his own house, while learning the native languages and cultures.
	www.comeandseeicons.com /phn72.htm (321 words)

	OCA - Biography of St. Innocent of Alaska
		Saint Innocent (secular name: John Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov) was born into the family of a church server on August 26, 1797 in the village of Anginskoye, Verkholensk District, Irkutsk province.
		In his fifth year he was already receiving instruction in reading and writing from his ailing father, who died in August 1803.
		In later life Saint Innocent would recall how after an inner struggle he had said: "Blessed be the name of the Lord!" and was consumed by a burning desire to devote himself to the service of people ignorant of Christ, but, according to eyewitnesses, eager to hear the teachings of the Gospel.
	www.oca.org /HSbioinnocent.asp?SID=7 (1086 words)

	Saint Innocent
		Saint Innocent's Academy is a high school educational opportunity for young men ages 15 to 21.
		The ultimate goal of Saint Innocent's Academy is not just the acquisition of skills but the full realization of the person - spirit, soul and body - through learning the most essential skill: the discipline of relating truthfully to oneself, to society and to God.
		Saint Innocent's Academy answers these questions according to the traditional Orthodox Christian worldview, which is the basis for a strong spiritual and intellectual education.
	members.fortunecity.com /jamtat (412 words)

	Innocent of Alaska - OrthodoxWiki
		Our father among the saints Innocent of Alaska, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlightener of North America (1797-1879), was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia.
		Innocent, né Ivan (John) Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov, was born on August 26, 1797, into the family of a church server in the village of Anginskoye, Verkholensk District, Irkutsk province, in Russia.
		On October 6, 1977, the Church of Russia, acting on the official request of the Orthodox Church in America, proclaimed Innocent a saint.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Innocent_of_Alaska (1096 words)

	VE-1.Life of St.Innocent
		By means of Herculean feats and self-sacrifice, it is St. Innocent who is primarily responsible for bringing the Orthodox Christian Faith to the Aleuts and other native peoples throughout Alaska, (when Alaska was a part of Russia), and establishing the Orthodox Church in North America.
		An important objective of this Life of St. Innocent of Alaska is to discover how a poor orphaned boy from a remote village in the wilds of Siberia became not just an admirable human being, but a saint, and to explore the inner spiritual source from which his heroic achievements flowed.
		Innocent of Alaska, that includes a number of photos of places depicted in the above video.
	www.firebirdvideos.com /videos/videosinenglish/stinnocentlife.htm (550 words)

	St. Innocent
		Innocent was born in 1797 to a poor family in a remote village in a rural area of Irkutsk Province in Russia, and named Ioann (John).
		His wife broke into tears when she heard the news of this mission, but was unable to dissuade him, so at age 26, he and his family traveled over 2,000 miles, taking over a year to complete this arduous journey, and arrived finally in the Aleutian Islands in 1824.
		Innocent of Alaska Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of North America
	www.allsaintsofamerica.org /orthodoxy/innocent.html (671 words)

	Orthodox Missions, Lessons from the Past (Conclusion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Saint Nicholas worked very hard, very hard; but what joy came through the results of his podvig: the establishment of a whole Church, an entire assembly of clergy, many churches, monastics, all honor him as the apostle and father of the Church.
		Saint Herman of Alaska and Saint Innocent (Veniaminov)
		Saint Herman of Alaska is an extraordinary example of a missionary-ascetic from the recent history of the Orthodox Church.
	www.roca.org /OA/128/128d.htm (3281 words)

	History of Orthodoxy in America: Outreach Alaska
		For the next fifty years, together with the exploration and economic development of this new outpost of the Russian Empire, the first attempts were made to bring the Orthodox Faith to the natives of that region (the Aleuts, the Athabascan Indians, the Tlingits, and the Eskimos).
		The Orthodox Church in Alaska is a Native institution - the first in America to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ.
		What enabled Alaska Native peoples to endure and survive was their essential spirituality.
	www.outreachalaska.org /history.html (975 words)

	Life of St. Innocent/Alaska
		In 1852 Bishop Innocent’s diocese was enlarged to an archdiocese, to include the northeastern areas of Siberia.
		He was glorified as a saint in 1977, and now his relics are in a very prominent place, in front of the left front pillar in the Dormition Cathedral at the Lavra (see photo to the left).
		Innocent of Irkutsk Orthodox Church in Redford, Michigan.
	www.firebirdvideos.com /saintslives/lifeofinnocentak.htm (1099 words)

	Russian colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the discovery of northern Alaska by Ivan Fedorov in 1732, and the Aleutian Islands, southern Alaska, and northwestern shores of North America in 1741 during the Russian exploration conducted by Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, it took 50 years until the founding of the first Russian colony in Alaska in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov.
		The witness of Herman of Alaska, Saint Innocent of Alaska, and Peter the Aleut has contributed to the continuing strong Orthodox community in Alaska.
		A series of commemorative coins was released in the USSR in 1990 and 1991 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the discovery of Russian America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_colonization_of_the_Americas (493 words)

	Akathists
		In the same way, may the readers of the akathists find God, the Theotoks and the Saints to be a help and consolation for their souls as well.
		Akathist to the Martyr Saints of the Boxer Rebellion
		Akathist to Saint Tikhon, the Patriarch of Moscow
	www.angelfire.com /planet/parastos/akathists.html (505 words)

	PBS - Harriman: Expedition Log, August 11, 2001
		The town of Unalaska housed the local residents and was accessed past the airport and across a bridge.
		Saint Innocent of Alaska and icons saved from neighboring villages dated back to the 1800s.
		Everyday is dedicated to a different saint and there are entire months described in icons.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/explog/081101_log.html (1290 words)

	Mission San Jose
		Saint Innocent of Alaska, Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of North America visited the original Mission San Jose in September 1836.
		In 1868, Bishop Innocent was appointed Metropolitan of Moscow--the titular leader of the largest Orthodox church in the world.
		Metropolitan Innocent's evangelical zeal never diminished, and he founded the Russian Mission Society, which supported Orthodox missionaries until 1917.
	www.athanasius.com /camission/san_jose.htm (2135 words)

	UAF Hosts Worldwide Conference on Alaska Saint
		Veniaminov, a pioneer in the study of Alaska's Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, Yup'ik and Athabaskan languages, is acknowledged worldwide as an educator, scholar, ethnographer and linguist.
		Veniaminov arrived in Alaska in 1824 accompanied by his wife and two children, including a daughter born aboard ship en route to Alaska.
		The legacy of America's Russian past is still visible throughout Alaska today, where onion-domed Orthodox churches dot the landscape of many parts of the state.
	www.uaf.edu /univrel/media/FY98/026.html (481 words)

	About Project Mexico & St. Innocent Orphanage
		In 1996 our outreach expanded through the opening of St. Innocent Orthodox Orphanage in Tijuana which provides a home for teenage boys who live on the streets or who have been put out of other orphanages and would otherwise be left to fend for themselves.
		Innocent Orphanage is the only facility dedicated to teenage boys in Tijuana and one of only four in the entire country of Mexico.
		Innocent of Alaska, our patron, was a remarkable man who inspires us by his life, his love of God, his sacrifice, and his affection for the native people of Alaska.
	www.projectmexico.org /about.html (1545 words)

	Our Orthodoxy and Its Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While on a trip to Russia in 1998, I had the privilege of venerating the holy relics of Saint Innocent of Alaska.
		In his journal, kept over a period of years while he was a missionary, he tells a remarkable story about his visit, unannounced and unexpected, to a particular island one day in April of 1828.
		But that time is now passing as many of their new faithful discover the lives of the saints, the traditional spirituality of the Church, and other things that they had not been given when they first converted to Orthodoxy.
	www.roca.org /oa/163-164/163r.htm (2668 words)

	The Orthodox Web Site for information about the faith, life and worship of the Orthodox Church
		Being pure and innocent, he was always with God and conversed with Him as with his Father, and in return God loved him as His own beloved son.
		After all, the saints, like us, were not sinless at first but participated in worldly affairs, labored and had various obligations and families to care about.
		This was well known to the saints who, inspired by the Holy Spirit, stood day and night in prayer in sweet rapture, failing the while to notice the time fleeting away.
	www.orthodox.clara.net /kingdom_heaven.htm (12807 words)

	Children's Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		North Star Saint Herman of Alaska by Dorrie Papademetriou The author captures the divine spark that shone in St Herman of Alaska and reflects it across the pages.
		Saint Innocent of Alaska converted and baptized thousands of native people into the Christian faith.
		The Blackbird's Nest Saint Kevin of Ireland by Jenny Schroedel, illustrated by Doug Montross.
	www.orthodoxbooksanditems.com /childrensbooks.html (2866 words)

	Saint Innocent of Irkutsk
		aint Innocent was born John Veniaminov in 1797 in the village of Anginskoye in Irkutsk province.
		In St. Petersburg he received news of the death of his wife, and he was tonsured a monk and given the rank of archimandrite, then bishop and then archbishop of Irkutsk.
		You evangelized the Northern people of America and Asia,/ proclaiming the Gospel of Christ to the natives in their own tongues,/ O Holy Hierarch, Father Innocent,/ Enlightener of Alaska and All America, whose ways were ordered by the Lord./ Pray to Him for the salvation of our souls in His Heavenly Kingdom.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/innocent_irkutsk.htm (429 words)

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		As many as 400 pilgrims travel to this chapel every year, primarily on August 9th, the day on which St. Herman of Alaska is commemorated.
		Mikel Bock, of St. Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, in addition to the two monks who live and pray at St. Michael's Skete, the monastery on Spruce Island, Father Andrew and Father Martyrius.
		His reliquary rests in the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, and is opened up each year for the faithful who come for the pilgrimage to Kodiak and Spruce Island.
	www.saintpeterandpaul.org /photos_1alaskamiss04.html (848 words)

	HTC: Rev. Sebastian Dabovich On Saint Innocent of Alaska
		Bishop of the Orthodox Church in Alaska and the United States, and before the Members and Friends of the same, together with the parish school of St. Sergius at the Celebration in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of INNOCENTIUS, first Bishop of the Orthodox Church in America,
		In those pioneer days of Alaska an Aleutian baidarka, or small canoe made of the skin of a walrus, was the only means he had for his voyages of longa corsa.
		He was ever sailing over the ocean, or driving in reindeer and dog sledges over a country, thousands of miles in extent, everywhere baptizing the natives, for whom he has introduced the use of letters, and translated the Gospel into their native tongues.
	www.holy-trinity.org /history/1897/09.15-27.RussAmOrthoMess.html (1491 words)

	Hopko, Fr. Thomas :: Orthodox Christian Cassettes
		Thomas is speaking to and with children and explains some basics about some patron saints, the Bible and God's love.
		Thomas discusses the theology of the family; what is it supposed to be according to what Jesus and the saints have stated.
		Even the great saints in monastic life have stated the need to be complete through a spiritual relationship with women.
	www.orthodoxtapes.org /catalog/hopko_thomas.html (1078 words)

	Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia - Parish Directory
		Saints Kyril and Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral
		Please note: to search for a parish's name, enter "Saint" not "St." To search for a state, use the state's 2-letter abbreviation.
		Saint Isaac of Syria Skete and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
	bulgariandiocese.org /parishdirectory.html (139 words)

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