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On [[November 27]], 1910 ([[Julian Calendar]]), with the blessing of the [[bishop]]s of Vladivostok and in America, the first Russian Orthodox reader services were held by Reader Vasily Pasderin. November 27 was, and is, the "Feast Day of the [[Kursk Root Icon]] of the [[Mother of God]]."
In 1916, at the petition of the Russian Orthodox community to the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox Church]], a Russian Orthodox priest was dispatched to Hawaii to pastor the large population of [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox]] faithful. On Orthodox Christmas (Dec.25/Jan. 7), Protopresbyter Yakov Korchinsky celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Honolulu, and he established permanent liturgical services. Thus Orthodoxy was re-established in Hawaii. Fr. Yakov, a well-known [[missionary]] priest, established churches in [[Canada]], the [[United States]], [[Alaska]], and [[Australia]]. He was murdered in [[Odessa]] shortly after the [[October Revolution]] in Russia. [[Image:episcopal.jpg|right|thumb|50px|frame|St. Andrew's Episcopal as it appears today in downtown Honolulu]]
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 [[Meletios 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 Tikhon]] and for medical reasons. He is now purportedly buried on the [[Big Island of Hawaii]].