A History of the Orthodox Church in Hawaii: Two Hundred Years on the Road

by Amir A. Khisamutdinov

A History of the Orthodox Church in Hawaii recounts the many attempts to establish an Orthodox religious community in the Hawaiian islands. While the first Christian service in Hawaii was the Church of England funeral service for Captain James Cook at the end of the eighteenth century, the first full Christian liturgy (mass) on Hawaiian soil was an Orthodox Easter service celebrated in the early nineteenth century by the chaplain and crew of a Russian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680530623
• ISBN13: 9781680530629
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 164 Pages