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Innocent of Alaska

Russian missionary and priest
Innocent of Alaska, also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna. Wikipedia
Born: August 26, 1797, Irkutsk Governorate
Died: April 12, 1879 (age 81 years), Moscow, Russia
Parents: Evsey Popov
Canonized: October 6, 1977, Moscow by Patriarch Pimen I, Russian Orthodox Church