ST. NICHOLAS (KASATKIN) AND HIS MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN JAPAN (to the 110th anniversary of the repose)

Dmitry A. Katenin

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: maccabeus@list.ru

Issue: № 4 (20), 2022

Pages: 94

Annotation

The article presents the material about the history of the missionaries of St. Peter. Nicholas (Kasatkin) in Japan, as well as about the preparation for missionary work, about the conversion of the first Japanese to the Orthodox faith, about the construction of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tokyo. The problems of the Russian missionary in the late XIX-early XX century in the Land of the Rising Sun are sanctified. Statistical data on the number of Japanese converts to the Orthodox faith and reviews of contemporaries about Archbishop Nicholas of Japan are given.

Keywords

Japan, Orthodox mission, missionary work, translation of the Holy Scriptures, Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tokyo, svt. Nikolay (Kasatkin), Pavel Savabe

For citation

Katenin D. A. St. Nicholas (Kasatkin) and his missionary activity in Japan // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2022. № . 4. Р. 94–102 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2022–4–94–102