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Revision as of 00:05, 19 January 2025 by Alexthegod5 (talk | contribs) (formatting)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) American Orthodox vicar (b. 1868) Not to be confused with Innocent of Alaska. In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Dmitriyevich and the family name is Pustynsky.| Innocent | |
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| Vicar of Alaska and North America | |
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| Archdiocese | Vicarate of Alaska and North America |
| See | Sitka |
| Elected | 1903 |
| Predecessor | Position created |
| Successor | Alexander (Nemolovsky) |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1904 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexander Pustynsky (1868-09-23)September 23, 1868 Pustyny, Gryazovetsky District, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 3, 1937(1937-12-03) (aged 69) |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Alma mater | Vologda Tehological School [ru] |
Innocent (Pustynsky) (Russian: Иннокентий Пустынский, romanized: Innokentiy Pustynskiy; September 23, 1868 - December 3, 1937), born Alexander D. Pustynsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Пусты́нский, romanized: Aleksándr Dmítriyevich Pustýnskiy) was an Eastern Orthodox bishop and the first vicar of the Vicarate of Alaska and North America, from 1904 to 1909.
Early life
Bishop Innocent was born Alexander Pustynsky in 1868 in the village of Pustynya. When he was young, his parents died and he was orphaned, and taken in by the local priest. Locals from the village assisted in paying for his education.
Bishop
After years of Metropolitan Tikhon trying to get auxiliary help from Moscow to assist with the rapidly growing diocese, Innocent was consecrated vicar bishop in 1904.
During his tenure, he acted as assistance to then Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America Tikhon in order for the latter to focus more on administering the diocese in the rest of America. He was instructed to oversee the Alaska Native and Creole parishioners. He was also present at the consecration of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn. Innocent also translated works into Tlingit and Alutiiq languages, and founded the Orthodox Temperance Society.
In 1910 he became the Bishop of Yakutsk and Vilyuy. He was succeeded by Archimandrite Alexander Nemolovsky of Jersey City in 1909.
Innocent was executed by order of the NKVD on December 3, 1937 in Almaty. He was rehabilitated on April 12, 1989.
See also
References
- ^ Smith, Barbara S. (1974). Preliminary Survey of Documents in the Archive of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. Resources Development Internship Program, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. p. 132.
- "St. Raphael of Brooklyn - Life of the Saint". The Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ^ От Вологды до Аляски, от Якутии до Туркестана. Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Moscow Journal.
- Morris, John. W. (July 19, 2011). The Historic Church An Orthodox View of Christian History. AuthorHouse. p. 528. ISBN 9781456734909.
- Ciment, James; Radzilowski, John (2015). American immigration: an encyclopedia of political, social, and cultural change (Second ed.). London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317477167.
- Pustynsky, Innocent (1906). "Orthodox Temperance Society Pamphlet" (PDF).
- Smith, Barbara S. (January 1, 1980). Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska: a history, inventory, and analysis of the church archives in alaska with an annotated bibliography (First ed.). Alaska Historical Commission. pp. 125–126.
- "Пустынский Александр Дмитриевич (о.Иннокентий)". Бессмертный барак (in Russian). Retrieved 18 January 2025.
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| Preceded byPosition created | Vicar of Alaska and North America 1904 – 1909 |
Succeeded byAlexander (Nemolovsky) |