{"id":21959,"date":"2010-07-16T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mospat.ru\/?p=21959"},"modified":"2010-07-16T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:07:31","slug":"v-den-269-letiya-osnovaniya-russkojj-ameriki-v-moskve-sovershena-panikhida-po-pervootkryvatelyam-alyaski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2010\/07\/16\/news21959\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Service for the Group of Explorers who found Alaska on the 269th Anniversary of the Founding of Russian America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-21959 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'>\n\t\t<div class='carousel-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='carousel-2' class='gallery-carousel'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/02.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_200\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/02.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/03.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_201\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/03.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/07.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_202\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/07.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='thumbs-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='thumbs-2' class='gallery-thumbs'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#slide_item_200\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/02.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a><a href=\"#slide_item_201\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/03.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a><a href=\"#slide_item_202\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/07.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<a id='prev-2' class='gallery-thumbs-prev' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-left'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a id='next-2' class='gallery-thumbs-next' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-right'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><br \/>\nOn July 15, 2010, the day which marks the 269<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Founding of Russian America, or present day Alaska, Archimandrite Zacchaeus, Representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Moscow Patriarchate celebrated a memorial service (panikhida) at Holy Trinity Church \u201cin Listakh\u201d for the group of explorers led by Captain Alexei Chirikov and Navigator Captain Vitus Bering on the two ships St Peter and St Paul which arrived on the Aleutian Islands and parts of the North American Coastline during the Great Northern Expedition.<\/p>\n<p>The panikhida was concelebrated by Priest Arseny Chernykhin, cleric of Holy Trinity Church and staff member of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department of External Church Relations, who preached a sermon on the importance of the labors of the explorers in discovering Alaska. Following the memorial service, Archimandrite Zacchaeus also spoke on the importance of Alaska in building bridges between the two nations of Russia and America, and being a place where Orthodoxy began and then spread to the \u201cLower 48\u201d or contiguous United States thanks to the efforts of such great Russian missionaries such as the Venerable Herman of Alaska, whose 40<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of Canonization is being celebrated in August, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance at the panikhida was Mr Vladimir G. Kolychev, the Director of the Moscow Historical Enlightenment Society, \u201cRussian America.\u201d (russianamerica.livejournal.com)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, 2010, the day which marks the 269th Anniversary of the Founding of Russian America, or present day Alaska, Archimandrite Zacchaeus, Representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Moscow Patriarchate celebrated a memorial service (panikhida) at Holy Trinity Church \u201cin Listakh\u201d for the group of explorers led by Captain Alexei Chirikov and Navigator Captain Vitus Bering on the two ships St Peter and St Paul which arrived on the Aleutian Islands and parts of the North American Coastline during the Great Northern Expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,9,1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}