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About Joasaph Bolotov
- Bishop Joasaph (secular name Ivan Ilyich Bolotov, Russian: ????? ????? ???????; 22 January 1761 – May 1799) was a Russian Orthodox missionary, bishop of Kodiak, vicar of Irkutsk diocese. He came to Alaska as the leader of a group of missionaries from the Valaam Monastery in 1794.
- Under very primitive conditions he and his monastic companions established the foundations of an Orthodox presence in North America.
- Called to Irkutsk, he was consecrated the auxiliary Bishop of Kodiak, but did not survive a shipwreck on his return to Alaska.
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