Innocent (Pustynsky) (Russian: Иннокентий Пустынский, romanized: Innokentiy Pustynskiy; September 23, 1868 - December 3, 1937), born Alexander Dmitriyevich Pustynsky[1] (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Пусты́нский, romanized: Aleksándr Dmítriyevich Pustýnskiy) was an Eastern Orthodox bishop and the first vicar of the Vicarate of Alaska and North America, from 1904 to 1909.

[2] Bishop Innocent was born Alexander Dmitriyevich Pustynsky in 1868 in the village of Pustynya.

[1][3] After years of Metropolitan Tikhon trying to get auxiliary help from Moscow to assist with the rapidly growing diocese, Innocent was consecrated vicar bishop of the Alaska Vicariate in 1904.

Innocent also translated works into Tlingit and Alutiiq languages, and founded the Orthodox Temperance Society in Alaska.

[3] From 1912 to 1922 he was the Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan until he was forced to resign due to his criticisms of the new policies of the Soviet anti-religious legislation[8] Innocent was executed by order of the NKVD on December 3, 1937, in Almaty.