Claim: The Russian Orthodox Church's mission in China had an interest in translating Chinese characters for transcribing Slavonic, and sought to devise new characters for this purpose in which many of these new were proposed by Archimandrite Gurias.
Evidence: The Russian Orthodox Church's mission in China had an interest in translating liturgical texts into Chinese and Japanese, and sought to devise new characters for this purpose. Chinese characters for transcribing Slavonic were Chinese characters created for the purpose of transcribing Slavonic sounds into Chinese. Many of these new characters were proposed by Archimandrite Gurias, the 14th head of the Russian mission from 1858–1864.