In 1823, Innocent was sent to Unalaska. The journey took a year, and Innocent was accompanied by his family. In addition to Unalaska, Innocent’s parish included the Fox and Pribilof Islands. He would travel between islands in a canoe. He studied the indigenous languages and wrote about them after he was sent to Sitka.
His wife died in Irkutsk in 1840 while Innocent was giving reports in Moscow and Kiev. Innocent became a monk and, in 1841, the bishop of Kamchatka and then Russian owned Kuril and Aleutian Islands. He spent 9 years with his See in Sitka.
Innocent moved to Moscow in 1867 to become the Metropolitan and died there on April 12, 1879. He was canonized and given the title “Enlightener of the Aleuts, Apostle to America” in 1977 at the request of the Orthodox Church in America.
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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_of_Alaska