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Book/Printed Material Mitropolit Innokentiĭ, propovednik Evangelii︠a︡ na Aleutskikh ostrovakh. Митрополит Иннокентий, проповедник Евангелия на Алеутских островах.

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Title

  • Mitropolit Innokentiĭ, propovednik Evangelii︠a︡ na Aleutskikh ostrovakh.

Other Title

  • Митрополит Иннокентий, проповедник Евангелия на Алеутских островах.

Translated Title

  • Metropolitan Innokentii, Preacher of the Gospel in the Aleutian Islands.

Summary

  • This hagiographical text tells the life story of Father Ioann Veniaminov (1797-1879) one of the greatest of the Russian Orthodox missionaries to Alaska. In the early 1820s, Veniaminov volunteered to go to Alaska and settled with his wife and family in Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. He built a church and school and began his lifelong task of studying the native languages, customs, and way of life of the native peoples of Alaska. He created written versions of several of the languages using the Cyrillic alphabet. In 1840, following the death of his wife, Veniaminov took the monastic name Innokentii and was made bishop of the newly created diocese of Kamchatka and the Kuril and Aleutian Islands. He later served as Metropolitan of Moscow, the second-highest position in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized by the church in 1977. The text was published in Tobol'sk in 1899 and was digitized at the National Library of Russia in the early 2000s for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project. World Digital Library.

Headings

  • -  Aleuts
  • -  Biography
  • -  Innokentii, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1797-1879
  • -  Missionaries
  • -  Tlingit Indians
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Moscow
  • -  United States of America
  • -  Alaska
  • -  Unalaska

Notes

  • -  Original text at: National Library of Russia

Medium

  • 8 pages ; 17 x 11 cm

Source Collection

  • Rare Books from the National Library of Russia

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018693954

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Mitropolit Innokentiĭ, propovednik Evangelii︠a︡ na Aleutskikh ostrovakh. 1899. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693954/.

APA citation style:

(1899) Mitropolit Innokentiĭ, propovednik Evangelii︠a︡ na Aleutskikh ostrovakh. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693954/.

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Mitropolit Innokentiĭ, propovednik Evangelii︠a︡ na Aleutskikh ostrovakh. 1899. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018693954/>.