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On Saturday, September 17th, His Grace Bishop NIKOLAI travelled to Kenai for the 110th Anniversary celebration of the parish. The parish was started in 1845 when Igumen Nikolai Militov established a permanent parish in Kenai. Igumen Nikolai, son of a reader, was born in 1810 in Russia. He was a student in the Tambov Theological School and became a monk in 1837. In 1840 he went to Sitka, AK with Bishop INNOCENT. In Sitka he was a member of the Ecclesiastical Consistory and the head of the Bishop's residence. On December 15, 1843, he was ordained Hieromonk. His travel journals are in the Archives of the Alaska Diocese, and the originals are in the Library of Congress. The first Church was built in 1849. In 1895 the present church was built to replace the first one with a grant of $400 from the Holy Synod of St Petersburg. Priest Thomas Andrew is the current rector of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Kenai.

Communion of the Faithful

Priest Thomas Andrew directs the children of the parish who sang Liturgical Hymns during the banquet

His Grace is presented with an Icon of the Dormition and a picture of the Kenai parish

Vladyka NIKOLAI speaks to the faithful about building for the future. With him are Archimandrite Isidore, Priest Daniel Andrejuk and Priest Sergie Active .

His Grace serves the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy

The Great Entrance

Litya for the departed was served for all the departed clergy and parishioners of the parish

Published with the blessing of
His Grace The Right Reverend NIKOLAI, Bishop of Sitka, Anchorage & Alaska
©2005 Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska

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