“He published the Orthodox journal Church Herald in Japanese. According to his report to the Holy Synod, by the end of 1890 the Orthodox Church in Japan numbered 216 communities with 18,625 Christians ...

Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Archbishop Nicholas (Kasatkin; 1836-1912), an outstanding missionary to Japan where he labored for over fifty years, was the founder of the Japanese Orthodox Church. Of the ...

By the next Council of the Japanese Orthodox Church, Nicholas Tsutiya had managed to gather a small local Church. Additionally, at the Council delegates from this Church asked for two catechists to be ...