Biology : Concepts and Investigations - Text Only

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Saints Cyril and Methodius, Herman of Alaska, Raphael Morgan, Tikhon of Moscow, Innocent of Alaska, Victor Pokrovsky, Nicholas of Japan, Andronic Nikolsky, Anthony of Sourozh, Jonah of Manchuria, Stephen of Perm, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch Hermogenes, Chinese Martyrs, Macarius Ii, Anatoly Tikhai, Yakov Tikhai, Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves, Pyotr Kafarov, Nikita Bichurin, List of Eastern Orthodox Missionaries, Mikhail Alexeyevich Miropiev. Excerpt: Father Anatoly Tikhai was a Romanian hieromonk who came to Japan in the early 1870s to assist Fr. Nicholas in his missionary work in Japan. Initially, the future St. Nicholas of Japan assigned Fr. Anatoly to his original church in Hakodate on Hokkaido island in northern Japan. During his years in Japan before he returned to Russia due to illness, Archimandrite Anatoly organized and taught schools in Hakodate and Osaka as well as serving as dean of the language school and organizing the seminary in Tokyo . Life Fr. Anatoly was originally from Bessarabia . He was born on 23 th of November, 1839 in T r s u i, Hotin district in northern part of Moldova (Bessarabia). He graduated from the Chi in u Theological Seminary and from the Kiev Theological Academy and lived on Mount Athos for four years before he was assigned to assist Fr. Nicholas with his mission work in Japan. The hieromonk Anatoly arrived in Japan during December 1871 while Fr. Nicholas' activities were still centered in Hakodate. After reviewing the status of the missionary effort in Japan with Fr. Anatoly, Fr. Nicholas assigned Fr. Anatoly to the existing parish at Hakodate, thus continuing the community that had formed there. This allowed Fr. Nicholas to move his activities to Edo (Tokyo). In 1873, Fr. Anatoly established the Motomachi Orthodox Primary Sch...