St Nikolai of Japan

Bishop Nikolai at
All Japan Council,
July 1882

St Nikolai, designated Equal-to-the Apostles and Enlightener of Japan, served as a missionary priest in Japan since treking through Siberia for almost a year before landing on Japanese soil in 1861. Shortly after his elevation to the espiscopacy in 1880, St Nikolai welcomed a visiting Chinese missionary delegation at the All Japan Council of July 1882, where St Nikolai also ordained the first Chinese priest St Mitrophan of Beijing.

St Nikolai reposed in the Lord on February 3/16, 1912. He was glorified on April 10, 1970 by Moscow Patriarchate, whereby his feastday to be observed on February 3.

• Father Nicolai and the Holy Church (May 1904)
• Nicholas (Kasatkin), Archbishop of Japan (In Memory of the 100th Annversary of His Blessed Repose)
• Equal-to-the-Apostles St. Nicholas of Japan 3/16 February
• THE DIARIES OF ST NICHOLAS OF JAPAN. Vol. I (June 27, 2013)
• Centennial of the demise of St. Nicholas of Japan Equal-to-the-Apostles marked in Tokyo (February 20, 2012)
• St Nicholas of Japan
• Meeting of Christian tradition and Far East culture in a life and creativity of prelate Nikolay (Kasatkin), archbishop Japanese (August 21, 2006, Machine translation)
• St. Nicholas of Japan, equal-to-the apostles
• The Conversion of a Samurai (Nov 18, 2011)
• Orthodox Translation of Gospel into Japanese by Galina Besstremyannaya (October 27, 2006)
• Saint Nicholas of Japan and His Legacy (From the St. Herman Calendar, 2011, St. Herman Press.)
• St Nicholas, Equal of the Apostles and Archbishop of Japan
• Prelate Nikolai of Japan. Strokes to a psychological portrait (August 17, 2005)