function

archbishop

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church
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diocese / province

Orthodox Kalinin-Kashin eparchy
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Orthodox Chernihov eparchy
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Orthodox Bryansk eparchy
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Orthodox Moscow eparchy
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Orthodox Orlov-Sevvy eparchy
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date and place of death

18.11.1937

Pavlodar
Pavlodar dist., Pavlodar reg., Kazakhstan

details of death

During World War I in 1914‑7 chaplain of the Russian Imperial Army on the northern front n. Riga. Later living in Karachev attempted to take over Bryansk eparchy, in acordane with nomination. On 08.04.1925 was called in to Bryansk with respect to documentation submitted, necessary to gain the rights to live in Bryansk. Did not get permission — got deported to Tver instead. To Karachev returned in 1927. Again attempted to move to Bryansk and made a relevant request to OGPU. The application was again rejected. Had then no voting rights. At the beginning o 07.1930 summoned to Bryansk. There on 05.07.1930 interned. Month later on 05.08.1930 arrested. Accused of „setting up the monastic anti–Russian group in Bryansk and Karachev aiming at undemining Russian authorities”. On 15.12.1930 sentence by Russian crooked kangaroo court called Troika OGPU to 10 years incarceration. On 06.01.1931 taken to a camp in Komi–Zhyriansk region. Released on 22.11.1933. Arrested again by the Russians on 27.07.1936 in Torzhok. Accused of „counter–revolutionary religious activities”. On 20.10.1936 sentenced to 5 years deportation. Deported to Shcherbakty village in Kazakhstan. Finally arrested on 18.11.1937 and accused of„counter–revolutionary activities”. Admitted to this — claiming that Soviet system „cannot last for it fights with religion and religion is inherently the foundation of man”. Held in Pavlodar prison. On 25.11.1937 sentenced by Russian genocidal kangaroo court known as Troika NKVD to death. Promptly murdered.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place of birth

1860

Ostapovka
Myrhorod rai., Poltava obl., Ukraine

religious vows

1909 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

1909

positions held

Archbishop from 1934, bishop of Novyi Torg / Torzok (1933‑6) — vicar of Kalinin–Kashin eparchy, f. bishop of Starodub (from 1928/30) — vicar of Chernikov eparchy, f. bishop of Bryansk eparchy (1923‑8), f admnistrator of Dmitrov (1922) — vicar of Moscow eparchy, f. bishop of Karachew (1921‑8) — vicar of Oryol–Sevsk eparchy, ordained bishop on 12.12.1921, f. abbot of St Nicholas monastery in Odrina n. Bryansk (1918‑21), f. military chaplain (1914‑7), f. monk at St Onuphrius monastery in Jabłeczna (1909‑17), f. medical doctor in Murom n. Wladimir on Klazma, f. student of Medicine Department at Imperial University in Moscow

others related in death

KULHAWIEC Simeon, STEPANIUK George, GUDKO Vasil (Bp Ambrose), NIKATOW Alex, OSTROUMOW Michael (Bp Seraphim), SAWICKI Yaroslav, SIENKIEWICZ Alex, GAGALUK Anthony (Abp Onuphrius), STROCIUK Leontius, BLUMOWICZ John, SZACHMUĆ Roman (Fr Seraphim), PANASIEWICZ Emilian, MIEDWIEDIUK Vladimir, SMOLENIEC Alexander (Abp Arsenius), MARCENKO Alexander (Abp Anthony), DIERNOW Anatol (Abp Abramius)

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

Great Purge 1937: In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and BelBaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‑called „Troika NKVD” all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned „Troika NKVD” kangaroo courts.

Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.12.20])

VorkutLag: Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system), near Vorkuta in Komi republic, created on 10.15.1938 — as a result of the split of larger UktpechLag complex of camps — where Russians held many Poles prisoners. Up to 75,000 (at peak — in 1950‑1 — c. 100,000) prisoners slaved there mainly in coal mines. In the most tragic 1943 c. 15.5% of prisoners held in the camp perished. Total number of victims of Vorkuta camps remains unknown. (more on: pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09])

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09])

sources

personal:
pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2020.09.24], drevo-info.ru [access: 2020.09.24], www.pstbi.ccas.ru [access: 2020.09.24]
original images:
drevo-info.ru [access: 2020.09.24]