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This booklet contains the instructions to priests given by Bishop Ioann Veniaminov (1797‒1879) in 1841 when he reached the newly established Kamchatka Diocese. Veniaminov was one of the greatest Russian Orthodox missionaries to Alaska and the Russian Far East. He volunteered to go to Alaska in 1823 and settled with his family at Unalaska, where he built a church and school and began his lifelong task of studying the native languages of the region. After the death of his wife, in 1840 he became a monk and took the ...