Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church

1845 Fr Igumen Nikolai Militov established a permanent parish in Kenai.  Fr 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 th...