Section 03 — The Missionary

The heart of the collection: Sebastian’s founding of St. Sava’s church at Jackson, California in 1894 — the first Serbian Orthodox church in the Western Hemisphere — and the ceaseless missionary travels that took him across California, the Pacific Northwest, the Mountain West, Alaska, and beyond, planting parishes and gathering the scattered Orthodox of a whole continent.

Tradition: Serbian Orthodox / American (glorified 2015)

This section is where Sebastian’s historical achievement is concentrated. The first file treats his best-remembered single act, the founding and consecration of St. Sava’s, stating the “first Serbian church” claim with the precision it needs. The second treats the pattern of his whole active ministry: the itinerant, continent-spanning, pan-Orthodox missionary labor that earned him the title “Father of Serbian Orthodoxy in America.”

Contents

File	Description
st-sava-jackson-1894.md	The founding and 1894 consecration of St. Sava’s, Jackson; the “first Serbian church in the Western Hemisphere” claim stated precisely
the-tireless-traveler.md	The parishes he founded and served across the continent; the ocean crossings; the pan-Orthodox and missionary character of his labor

See Also

• 02 — Vocation — the priest who did this work
• 05 — With Tikhon and the American Church — the mission structure within which he traveled
• The Immigrant Era — the wider missionary field