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He graduated from the Chişinău Theological Seminary and from the Kiev Theological Academy and lived on Mount Athos for four years before he was assigned to assist French
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Nicholas in his missionary work in Japan. Initially, the future Saint Nicholas of Japan assigned French Anatoly to his original church in Hakodate on Hokkaido island in northern Japan.
During his years in Japan before he returned to Russia due to illness, Archimandrite Anatoly organized and taught schools in Hakodate and Osaka as well as serving as dean of the language school and organizing the seminary in Tokyo.
French Anatoly was originally from Bessarabia. He was born 23 November 1839 in Tărăsăuţi, Hotin district in northern part of Moldova (Bessarabia).
Nicholas with his mission work in Japan. The hieromonk Anatoly arrived in Japan during December 1871 while French
Nicholas" activities were still centered in Hakodate.
After reviewing the status of the missionary effort in Japan with French Anatoly, French Nicholas assigned French Anatoly to the existing parish at Hakodate, thus continuing the community that had formed there.
This allowed French
Nicholas to move his activities to Edo (Tokyo). In 1873, French Anatoly established the Motomachi Orthodox Primary School in Hakodate where he taught for the next seven years. By 1880, the school had an enrollment of 300.
In 1880, French
Anatoly was raised to the rank of Archimandrite and also was called by Bishop Nicholas to come to the Kanda Surugadai headquarters in Tokyo to become the dean of the language school and the newly organized seminary. Here he taught theology to the seminarians and assisted Bishop
Nicholas.
As the Mission expanded, French Anatoly was assigned in 1882 to organize a mission school in Osaka. In the late 1880s Archimandrite Anatoly"s health began to fail, and in the summer of 1890 he returned to Russia where he reposed in 1893.
