Nicholas Ilminsky

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Nicholas Ilminsky

Russian missionary

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Christianity
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…included the linguist and translator Nicholas Ilminsky (died 1891) and St. Innocent Veniaminov (1797–1879), who in 1823 went as its first missionary to the Aleutian Islands. Veniaminov eventually became Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow, and in 1870 he founded the Russian Orthodox Missionary Society. The Russian Orthodox Church opened a mission…
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…included the linguist and translator Nicholas Ilminsky (died 1891) and St. Innocent Veniaminov (1797–1879), who in 1823 went as its first missionary to the Aleutian Islands. Veniaminov eventually became Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow, and in 1870 he founded the Russian Orthodox Missionary Society. The Russian Orthodox Church opened a mission…
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