10/6/2025
Galina Gulichkina
N.P. Rozanov, a professor at the Moscow Theological Seminary, recalled Metropolitan Innocent:“The new metropolitan, himself having come from the ranks of parish clergy, understood their needs. He did not demand absolute silence from the clergy when he spoke and would willingly engage them in conversation—even occasionally joking."
The saint’s life path was one of ceaseless and arduous labor—of his nearly eighty-two years of life, forty-five were spent on the road, preaching the Word of God to the peoples of the Far North of Russia, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
