Ivan Voronaev

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Ivan Timofeevitch Voronaev (Nikita Petrovitch Tcherkasov) - leader and founder of Pentecostal movement in Russia, Ukraine and the former USSR. He was born about 1885 in Orenburg[1].

American born immigrant introduced Pentecostalism to Russia, Ukraine and some other slavic nations. The first Russian-language Pentecostal church in Manhattan was founded by I.Voronaev in 1919.

In 1920 Ivan Voronaev together with Gustav Smith arrived in Ukraine (the West and South-East), where he established many new Christian communes (including Pentecostal commune in Odessa)[2]. Over 350 congregations in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria were founded. In 1926, the preacher published "Short Catechesis of Christian Evangelical Faith (CEF)". Ivan Voronaev was arrested by Soviet police in 1929, sent to Siberia and died in captivity.[3]

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  1. ^ Biography of Ivan Voronaev
  2. ^ Ukrainian Church on Karjerna
  3. ^ BELIEVE WEB Page


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