Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska records, 1733-1938

Collection Summary

Title	Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska records, 1733-1938
Span Dates	1733-1938
ID No.	MSS38695
Creator	Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska
Extent	87,000 items
Extent	660 containers plus 111 oversize
Extent	326 linear feet
Extent	402 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in Russian, with English, French, and Ukrainian.
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011165
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82038695
Summary	Principally ecclesiastical records relating to the administration of the numerous parishes and chapels of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, and, to a lesser extent, in Canada and the United States, comprising correspondence, registers of births, marriages, and deaths, confession and communion records, a clergy dossier, orders and edicts (ukases) from imperial and ecclesiastical authorities, financial records, diaries and travel journals, photographs, printed matter, and other material. Includes material relating to missionary work among the Tlingit Indians; Russian administration of Alaska through the bureaucracy of the church; schools and education; the Russian-American Company; and papers of various church officials, including Tikhon Bellavin, Evdokim Meshcherskii, and John S. Kedrovsky.