In subsequent years, the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox]] in [[Hawaii]] shipped or flew priests to Hawaii to care for the dwindling Orthodox population. [[Archimandrite]] Innokenty Dronov of Hilo, a contemporary of St. [[Jonah of Manchuria]] and St. [[John Maximovitch|John of Shanghai and San Francisco]] and Metropolitan [[Meletius of Harbin]], served the entire Orthodox Christian flock on all the [[Hawaii]]an Islands throughout the 1930s and 1940s. [[Image:innokenty.jpg|left|frame|Fr. Innokenty in front of the Old Apostles Episcopal church in Hilo]] Fr. innokenty had a large following of [[Church of Japan|Japanese Orthodox]] Christians. He frequently returned to the [http://www.wadiocese.com Diocese in San Francisco] to report to [[Archbishop Tikhonof San Francisco]] and for medical reasons. He is now purportedly buried on the [[Big Island of Hawaii]].