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Pastor Ralph Waldo Jürgens was a seminary preacher. He was arrested in 1938. He served the parish in Alt-Elft (Bessarabia) from 1841 to 1857 and the parish in Balzer from 1857 to 1887.

Pastor Wilhelm Julius Anton Jürgenson was born 18 January 1869 in Edsen, Kurland. He served the parish of Alt-Weimar from 1906 to 1910 and the parish of Mogolev from 1910 to 1918.

Gottlieb Friedrich Jordan, son of Jakob Jordan & Susanna Tschanz, was born 7 May 1801 [per von Liphart] 19 May 1802 [per Schnurr] in Bern, Switzerland.

Pastor Jordan studied theology at the Bern Mission Society and was ordained 17 September 1828 in Auggen, Kanton Basel, Switzerland. After serving as a missionary in the Caucasus and in parishes in Tiflis (Georgia), Marienfeld (Georgia), and Ferschampenauz (Bessarabia) before going to the Volga Region where served the parish of Balzer from 1857 to 1887.

Pastor Jordan died 11 February 1887 in the colony of Balzer.

Heinrich Eduard Johansen, son of Friedrich Johansen & Anna Ulrike Simberg, was born 16 February 1831 in Takpher, Estonia.

He studied theology at the University of Dorpat (Estonia) and was ordained on 18 September 1860 in Moscow.

Pastor Johansen served the German, Estonian, Latvian, and Finnish parishes of the Omsk District (1860-1868), as vicar in Samara (1868-1870), and in Tver (1870-1906). His wife, Louise Carlblom, died in Tver on 4 October 1905.

Pastor Aloysius Xaverius Jauch was born 16 January 1751 in Altdorf, Kanton Uri, Switzerland and died in 1820. On 29 July 1798 he married in Gnadau bei Schönebeck an der Elbe to Elisabeth Dolle (who had been born in the village of Bernhardsweiler in the Alsace region.

He studied theology in Bellinzona.

From 1794 to 1797 he served as pastor in the parish of Eschentz b. Stein a. Rhein. He served the parish of Messer from 1797-1804.

Pastor Johannes Janet (sometimes spelled Jannett) was born 17 April 1729 in Schleis (Tschlin), Engadin, Switzerland. He died 15 February 1803 in Messer.

He studied theology at the College of Philosophy in Hur (Chur) from 1749-1750, and from 1750-1751 at the Reformed Academy in Vienna. He was ordained 13 June 1754.

He taught and served parishes in Switzerland from 1754 to 1764. He immigrated to Russia in 1764, and served the parish in the colony of Anton from 1765 to 1778. While in Anton, he married Anna Katharina Reuter from Kassel.

Pastor Christian Friedrich JÄger was from Nehren b. Tübingen, Württemburg. He served the parish in Rosenheim from 1792 until his death in 1815.

In 1796, he married Regina Fritz, daughter of colonist Adam Fritz in Rosenheim.

Father Jacobs was born 5 March 1781 in Diest, Belgium, and died 28 November 1870 in Pressburg. Peter Jacobs was member of the Order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) and was ordained 4 August 1803.

He served the Kamenka Parish from 11 February 1810 to 13 August 1819, and in Astrakhan from 4 February 1820 to 10 November 1820. He continued to serve in Astrakhan in an unofficial capacity until 1824.

Pastor Otto August Inser was born 11 August 1877 in Stepanko (Pleskau District).

He studied theology at the City University of Dorpat (today in Tartu, Estonia).

He served the Volga German parish in Alt-Weimar from 1907 to 1908 and the parish in Brunnental from 1908 to 1910. From 1910 to 1921, he returned to Alt-Weimar.

Joseph Ihly, son of Theobald Ihly & Gertrude Boehm, was born 5 June 1851 in Karlsruhe (Odessa District). He died (date unknown) in Nikolayev.

He studied theology at the Roman Catholic Seminary in Saratov and was ordained 29 June 1875.

He served the parish of Rothammel from 1875 to 1 August 1876. From 16 September 1876 to 21 August 1880, he served the parish in Katharinental. From 19 August 1880 to 30 August 1903, he served the parish in Speier (Odessa District).

No further information is known about him.