February 9, 1804 by The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
Major shrine
Znamensky Monastery, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia
Feast
November 26 (repose) February 9 (translation and glorification) September 2 (second translation)
Innocent of Irkutsk (Russian: Иннокентий Иркутский, c. 1680-November 27, 1731) was a missionary to Siberia and the first bishop of Irkutsk in Russia.
He was born Ivan Kulczycki (Иван Кульчицкий, Ivan Kouchitzky) to a noble family in the Diocese of Chernigov. In 1706, he became a monk at the Lavra of the Kiev Caves. Afterwards he was appointed a professor at the Ecclesiastical Academy of Moscow, and then the locum tenens chaplain-general at the Lavra of St. Alexander Nevsky in St. Petersburg.[1]
In 1721, at Lavra Caves Monastery, he was consecrated bishop of Pereyaslavl in preparation for his leadership of the Orthodox mission to China. However, as a bishop he was not permitted entry to China and was therefore appointed to the see of Irkutsk in 1727. While in Irkutsk, he learned Mongolian and preached to the local people, converting many of them. He died in 1731 and was buried beneath the altar of the Tikhvin church,[2] one of the five churches at the Ascension Monastery in the town of Irkutsk.[3]
During restoration work on the church in 1764, Innocent's relics were found to be incorrupt. After numerous miracles attributed to his intercession, he was glorified a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1804. Since the actual date of his repose coincides with the commemoration of the icon of the Theotokos "Of the Sign" of Novgorod, his feast day was moved to the day prior.[1]
In 1921 the Soviet government confiscated his relics and placed them on display in various museums as a "Siberian mummy".[citation needed] The church was burned to the ground. The relics were later returned to the church on September 7, 1990.[citation needed]
He is occasionally confused with the later Innocent of Alaska who was named in his honor. Because of his appointment as head of the Orthodox mission in China Innocent is regarded as the patron saint of China by many Chinese Orthodox today.
^ abOrthodox Eastern Church (1998). The Synaxarion: The lives of the saints of the Orthodox Church. Vol. 2. Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra; Hookway, Christopher; Rule, Maria; Burton, Joanna. Ormylia, Chalkidike, Greece: Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady. p. ??. ISBN 978-960-85603-7-6. OCLC 40530820.
^10 знаковых мест Иркутска: Иркутский Вознесенский монастырь [10 iconic places of Irkutsk: Irkutsk Ascension Monastery]. Областная газета (in Russian). 22 April 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
^Семивскій [Semivsky], Николай Васильевич [Nikolai Vasilevich] (1817). "Chapter VI: Ангара". Новѣйшія, любопытные и достоверные, повѣствованія о Восточной Сибири [New, curious and authentic, Stories from Eastern Siberia]. St. Petersberg. p. 112.
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