Saint Innocent of Alaska

Saint Innocent of Alaska (also known as Saint Innocent of Irkutsk, or Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow) was a 19th century missionary priest and an archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is especially known for bringing the gospel to the native peoples of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, which was then under Russian control. Jim John Marks guests hosts this podcast, drawing mostly from a biography of the saint by Father Symeon Kees, an American priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, titled "A Brief Biography of St. Innocent of Alaska". The sources used in that article are:Afonsky, Bishop Gregory. A History of the Orthodox Church in Alaska (1794-1917).Kodiak, AK: St. Herman’s Theological Seminary, 1977.Cowie, Sarah Elizabeth. Saint Innocent of Alaska: Apostle and Missionary. BenLomond, CA: Conciliar Press, 2005.Garret, Paul D. St. Innocent: Apostle to America. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’sSeminary Press, 1979.Gray, George A. & Jan V. Bear. Portraits of American Saints. Los Angeles: DiocesanCouncil and Department of Missions, Diocese of the West, OCA, 1994.Ushimaru, Procius Yasuo. Bishop Innocent: Founder of American Orthodoxy. Bridgeport,CT: Metropolitan Council Publications Committee, 1964.The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City & James John Marks of Chicago.Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://x.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcasthttps://bsky.app/profile/xtiansaintspodcast.bsky.socialIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2026