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March 28-April 1, 2005
Kenai Peninsula
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In Pictures
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The Wonderworking Sitka Icon of the Mother of God is travelling through the Diocese to bless the faithful of Alaska. March 28-April 1, 2005, the Icon travelled to the Kenai Peninsula. She visited Ss. Sergius and Herman of Valaam in Nanwalek, St. Herman of Alaska in Port Graham, All Saints in Homer (Antiochian), Transfiguration of our Lord in Ninilchik, Dormition of the Mother of God in Kenai. You can drive to all these parishes except Port Graham and Nanwalek, from Homer it is about a 30 minute flight.
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 The Akathist is served in Nanwalek. The parish was founded in 1870, Priest Sergie Active is the current rector of Ss. Sergius and Herman of Valaam in Nanwalek as well as St. Herman of Alaska in Port Graham.
All Saints Church in Homer
 The faithful of Nanwalek carry the icon from the plane to the Church
Dormition of the Mother of God, Kenai.
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.
 The faithful of Nanwalek say goodbye to the Sitka Icon.
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