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==History==The Spirit Of Orthodoxy Choir was established in 1997 under the direction of Aleksei Shipovalnikov. The choir consists of singers from various [[Category:OrthodoxWikiparish]]es and [[Category: Helpjurisdiction]]s who are dedicated to church singing and who desire to be witnesses to the faith through music.

The expanse These music selections represent three schools of Russian Church music and have been sufficiently translated into English. Some of the mission placed by choir's repertoire has been unheard in the West. The Choir sings chiefly in English but also performs music in [[Church of RussiaSlavonic]] slowly expanded from . Their repertoire witnesses to the distant outpost in Alaska to a [[diocese]] that covered Alaska range and quality of the eastern expanse liturgical life of northern Siberiathe Orthodox Church. This diocese then developed two vicariates that eventually became separate diocesesTheir singing is a capella, without instrumentation. This list is typical of [[hierarch]]s presents those [[bishop]]s who provided the leadership in Orthodox Church, where the development of this mission human voice and soul are invaluable in North America until the mission was granted its autocephalyworship.

Starting as a vicariate ==Director==Aleksei V. Shipovalnikov was born in a distant dioceseRostov on the Don and studied composition, polyphony and conducting at the Gnesin Sate Conservatory and the mission soon became part Moscow Institute of Culture. His post-graduate studies included a master class with Leonard Bernstein in 1988. He served as Artistic Director and Manager of the large missionary diocese that included Alaska Moscow State University Symphony Orchestra and Academic Choir and has conducted in the northeastern part of Siberia where initially Soviet Union, West Germany and Poland. He established a reputation during the seat Communist era for innovative programming in spite of the ruling bishop was in Alaska but was political risks involved. In 1990 he moved to Siberia before Alaska was sold to the United States. After the sale , where he has served as Choir Director of Alaska [[Christ the vicariate in Alaska was reformed as an autonomous diocese with Saviour Church (San Francisco, California)|Christ the bishop’s seat moved to CaliforniaSaviour Church, outside the territory San Francisco]] and Music Director of AlaskaSlavyanka Men's Slavic Chorus. With the growth He was Professor of the Liturgical Music at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox population in the eastern part of North AmericaTheological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon's Seminary]], South Canaan, the name of the diocese was changed to include all North America Pennsylvania. He is currently Music Director at [[Ss. Peter and the ruling bishop’s seat was moved to Paul Church (Jersey City, New YorkJersey)|Ss. As the diocese grew auxiliary bishops were consecrated to cover the vast area Peter and the cultural needs of the faithful. In the closing decades of the mission many of the auxiliary bishops began to function as autonomous diocesesPaul Orthodox Church, Jersey City, New Jersey]].

The information following lists the bishops that occupied the ruling and vicar bishop positions during the era of the mission==External Link==* [http://www.spiritoforthodoxy.com/ Official website]

==Early Years==*'''Diocese of Irkutsk'''{{start box}}{{ Vicariate of Kodiak: | [[Joasaph (Bolotov) of Kodiak |Joasaph (Bolotov)]] | 1799-1799 }}{{end box}}*'''Diocese of Kamachata, Kurile Islands, and the Aleutian Islands'''See moved in 1852 from New Archangel to Yakutsk. Two vicariates established 1858: New Archangel and Yakutsk. {{ start box}}{{New Archangel: | [[Innocent of Alaska|Innocent (Veniaminov-Popov)]] | 1840 - 1852}}{{Yakutsk: | Innocent (Veniaminov-Popov) | 1852 - 1868}}{{New ArchangelCategory: |[[Peter (Ekaterinovsky) of Novoarkhangelsk|Peter (Ekatrinovsky)]] | 1859 - 1867}}{{Yakutsk: |Peter (Ekatrinovsky) | 1867 - 1882}}{{Sitka/New Archangel: | [[Paul (Popov) of Novoarkhangelsk|Paul (Popov)]] |1867 - 1870}}{{end box}} *'''Diocese of Aleutian Islands and Alaska'''*See: Sitka, formerly New Archangel, from 1870, then San Francisco from 1872.|- || [[John (Mitropolsky) of the Aleutians |John (Mitropolsky)]] || 1870 - 1876|- || [[Nestor (Zass) of the Aleutians|Nestor (Zass)]] || 1879 - 1882|- || [[Vladimir (Sokolovsky-Avtonomov) of the Aleutians |Vladimir (Sokolovsky-Avtonomov)]] | 1888 - 1891|- || [[Nicholas (Ziorov) of Warsaw|Nicholas (Ziorov)]] || 1891 - 1898|- || [[Tikhon of Moscow|Tikhon (Bellavin)]] || 1898 - 1900| }==Maturing Church==*'''Diocese of Aleutian Islands and North America'''*Change in the name of the diocese in 1900. See: New York from 1905.{ || '''New York''': || Tikhon (Bellavin) || 1900 - 1907| }*First Vicariates established 1903: Alaska and Brooklyn.{ ||- Alaska: || Innocent (Pustynsky) || 1904 - 1909|- Brooklyn: || [[Raphael of Brooklyn|Raphael (Hawaweeny)Music]] || 1904 - 1915|- Alaska: || [[Alexander (Nemolovsky) of Brussels|Alexander (Nemolovsky)]] || 1909 - 1915|- Canada: || Alexander (Nemolovsky) || 1916 - 1919|- '''New York''': || [[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York|Platon (Rozhdestvensky)]] || 1907 - 1914|- Alaska: || Philip (Stavitsky) || 1916 - 1917|- '''New York'''Category: || [[Evdokim (Meschersky) of the Aleutians | Evdokim (Mischersky)]] || 1915 - 1917|- Pittsburgh: || Stephen (Dzubay) || 1916 - 1924|- Brooklyn: || Aftimios (Ofiesh) || 1917 - 1933|- '''New York''': || Alexander (Nemolovsky) || 1919 - 1922|- Canada: || Adam (Philipovsky) || 1922 - 1943?|- '''New York''': || Platon (Rozhdestvensky) || 1922 - 1934|- Chicago: || [[Theophilus (Pashkovsky) of San Francisco| Theophilus (Pashkovsky)]] || 1922 - 1931|- Alaska: || Amphilokhy (Vakulsky) || 1923 - 1931?|- Canada/Winnipeg: || [[Arseny (Chavtsov) of Winnipeg| Arseny (Chavtsov)]] || 1926 -1936|- Montreal: || Emmanuel (Abo-Hatab) || 1927 - 1931|- San Francisco: || Alexis (Panteleev) || 1927 - 1931|- Detroit: || Paul (Gavrilov) || 1928 - 1933|- San Francisco: || Theophilus (Pashkovsky) || 1931 - 1934|- Alaska: || Antoninos (Pokrovsky) || 1931 - 1934|- Brooklyn: || Emmanuel (Abo-Hatab) || 1931 - 19??|- Chicago: || Paul (Gavrilov) || 1933 - 1933|- Chicago: || [[Leonty (Turkevich) of Chicago| Leonty (Turkevich)]] || 1933 - 1950|- Pittsburgh: || Benjamin (Basalyga) || 1933 - 1946|- Alaska: || Alexis (Panteleev)|| 1934 - 1944|- '''New York''': || Theophilus (Pashkovsky) || 1934 - 1950|- Boston: || [[Makary (Ilyinsky) of New York | Makary (Iliyinsky)]] || 1935 - 1937|- Brooklyn: || Makary (Iliyinsky) || 1937 - 1946|- Alaska: || John (Zlobin) || 1945 - 1952|- Tokyo: || Benjamin (Basalyga) || 1946 - 1952|- Brooklyn: || [[John (Shahovskoy) of San Francisco| John (Shahovskoy)]] || 1947 - 1950|- Pennsylvania: || Nikon (de Greve) || 1948 - 1959|- Canada: || Dimitry (Magan) || 1948 - ? |- Detroit/Cleveland: || John (Garklavs) || 1949 - 1957|- '''New York''': || Leonty (Turkevich) || 1950 - 1965|- San Francisco: || John (Shahovskoy) || 1950 - 1979|- Washington, DC || Jonah (?) || 1951 - 1955|- Pittsburgh: || Benjamin (Basalyga) || 1952 - 1963 |- Tokyo: || [[Ireney (Bekish) of New York| Ireney (Bekish)]] || 1953 - 1959|- Alaska: || Amvrossy (Merejko) || 1955 - 1967|- Chicago/Minneapolis: || John (Garklavs) || 1957 - |- Tokyo: || Nikon (de Greve) || 1959 - 1963|- Boston: || Ireney (Bekish) || 1960 - 1965|- Washington, DC || Kiprian (Borisevitch) || 1961 - 1964|- Kyoto: || [[Vladimir (Nagosky) of San Francisco|Vladimir (Nagosky)]] || 1962 - 1964|- Montreal/Canada: || [[Sylvester (Haruns) of Montreal | Sylvester (Haruns)]] || 1963 - 1981|- Philadelphia: || Kiprian (Borisevitch) || 1964 - 1980|- Tokyo: || Vladimir (Nagosky) || 1964 - 1972|- '''New York''': || Ireney (Bekish) || 1965 - 1977 |- Washington, DC || Theodosius (Lazor) || 1967 - 1967|- Sitka/Alaska: || Theodosius (Lazor) || 1967 - 1972|- Pittsburgh: || Amvrossy (Merejko) || 1967 - |- Edmonton: || Joasph (Antonuk) || 1968 - |- Berkeley: || [[Dmitri (Royster) of Dallas| Dimitri (Royster)]] || 1969 - | } Tomos of [[Autocephaly]], signed April 10, 1970 by [[Patriarch]] [[Alexis of MoscowOrganizations]], formally ending the mission and granting self-rule to the Russian North American diocese.