St. Innocent of Alaska’s house and chapel to return to Church in eastern Russia

Blagoveschensk, Amur Province, Russia, March 4, 2022

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The house church and house where St. Innocent of Alaska and Moscow lived and worked in far eastern Russia will soon be officially handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The procedure for the return of the properties to the Blagoveschensk Diocese in the Amur Province began on Wednesday, reports the diocesan site.

The transfer is timed to the 225th anniversary of the Holy Hierarch’s birth being celebrated this year. The center of the vast Diocese of Kamchatka, and the Kuril and Aleutian Islands was relocated to Blagoveschensk in 1858, during St. Innocent’s time as the ruling hierarch of the diocese.

With the blessing of Archbishop Lukian of Blagoveschensk, a parish will be revived on this historical site, and a memorial to St. Innocent will be erected on the territory of the bishop’s house.

The house was seized in the Soviet years and assigned to the local shipyard. Of all the buildings, only the early-20th-century stone house has been preserved, used for a long time as a production workshop. It is now in critical condition, though it was included in the list of cultural heritage sites of regional significance in 2016.

In September, a joint OCA-ROCOR delegation from America visited St. Innocent’s native village of Anga, Irkutsk Province, for the anniversary of his birth and opened the “St. Innocent and Fort Ross” exhibition at the village’s St. Innocent Cultural-Educational Center.

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3/4/2022

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