St. Nicholas of Japan

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:saint
Orthodox missionary
gptkbp:arrivedInJapan 1861
gptkbp:associatedWith Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do), Tokyo
gptkbp:birthDate August 1, 1836
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Ivan_Dmitrievich_Kasatkin
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Beryozha,_Smolensk_Governorate,_Russian_Empire
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Yanaka_Cemetery,_Tokyo
gptkbp:canonizedBy gptkb:Russian_Orthodox_Church
April 10, 1970
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Russian_Orthodox_Church
gptkb:Japanese_Orthodox_Church
gptkbp:contribution establishing Orthodox seminaries in Japan
promoting Orthodox Christianity in Japan
training Japanese clergy
gptkbp:deathDate February 16, 1912
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Tokyo,_Japan
gptkbp:education gptkb:St._Petersburg_Theological_Academy
gptkbp:episcopalConsecrationBy gptkb:Metropolitan_Isidore_of_St._Petersburg
gptkbp:episcopalConsecrationDate March 30, 1880
gptkbp:episcopalTitle Archbishop of All Japan
Bishop of Revel
gptkbp:feastDay February 16
gptkbp:firstJapaneseConvert Sawabe Takuma
gptkbp:honorificPrefix gptkb:saint
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label St. Nicholas of Japan
gptkbp:knownFor founding the Japanese Orthodox Church
translating the Bible and liturgical texts into Japanese
gptkbp:language gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Russian
gptkb:Church_Slavonic
Japanese
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notableWork Japanese translation of the New Testament
History of the Japanese Church
Japanese translation of Orthodox liturgical texts
gptkbp:ordinationDate 1861
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Eastern_Orthodox_Christianity
gptkbp:sentToJapanBy gptkb:Russian_Orthodox_Church
gptkbp:teacherOf Jacob Sawabe
John Ono
Paul Sawabe
gptkbp:title gptkb:Archbishop_of_Japan
gptkb:Equal-to-the-Apostles
gptkbp:veneratedIn gptkb:Eastern_Orthodox_Church
gptkb:Russian_Orthodox_Church
gptkb:Japanese_Orthodox_Church
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Bishop_of_China_and_Japan
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6