Archbishop Gregory (in the world Grigory Evfimievich Ostroumov ; October 14, 1856 - July 7, 1947 , Cannes ) - bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church , since 1938 - Cannes and Marseilles, diocesan bishop of the southern parishes of France .
| Archbishop Gregory | ||
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 Archpriest Grigory Ostroumov. 1935 photo | ||
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| October 10, 1945 - July 7, 1947 | ||
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church | |
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| 1938 - October 10, 1945 | ||
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church Abroad | |
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| November 22, 1936 - 1938 | ||
| Successor | Barnabas (Prokofiev) | |
| Birth name | Grigory Evfimievich Ostroumov | |
| Birth | October 14, 1856 | |
| Death | July 7, 1947 (aged 90) Cannes | |
| Buried | Archangel Michael Church , Cannes | |
| Holy Order | 1885 year | |
| Monasticism | 1936 year | |
| Episcopal consecration | November 9 (22), 1936 | |
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Biography
Born in 1856 , graduated from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy . In 1885 he was ordained a priest . In 1889, together with the Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna , whose confessor he was, he moved to the Cote d'Azur in the city of Cannes .
In Cannes, the only Orthodox church was the house church in the villa of Alexandra Feodorovna Tripe , which did not accommodate everyone who wanted to participate in the service. In this regard, in 1893, Father Gregory turned to Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich who lived in Cannes with a request for assistance in the construction of a new, more extensive church. The request was granted and on November 22 ( December 4 ), 1894, the Michael-Archangel Church , built in six months in Cannes, was consecrated . Father Gregory was appointed its rector, was elevated to the archpriest , and in 1905 was awarded a miter .
During World War I, from July 15, 1915 to September 30, 1918 he served as a priest at the auxiliary hospital No. 203 in Cannes, where wounded officers and soldiers of the Russian expeditionary corps were sent (many of them were buried in the city cemetery of Gran Jas ). In the same hospital, the daughter of Archpriest Gregory worked as a nurse.
Widowed on April 11, 1917 .
In 1927, for refusing to sign a “loyalty” to the Soviet government [1], by decree of Metropolitan Evlogy, he was relieved of his post as rector of the Michael-Archangel Church (his nephew, priest Alexy Seleznev, was appointed rector). He did not recognize the decree and in 1928, together with the parish, transferred to the jurisdiction of the ROCA , where he was elevated to protopresbyter .
In 1936 he took monastic tonsure and on November 22 was ordained bishop of Cannes, vicar of the Western European District of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. In 1938 he was appointed bishop of Cannes and Marseilles, diocesan bishop of the southern parishes of France. Following the head of the ROCA Metropolitan’s District in Western Europe, Serafim (Lukyanov) passed in the fall of 1945 to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate .
On November 6, 1946, by decree of Patriarch Alexy, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop .
He died on July 7, 1947, was buried in the crypt of the Archangel Michael Church of Cannes near his wife. The burial was made by Metropolitan Seraphim, Patriarchal Exarch in Western Europe .
On February 22, 1948, the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk parish in Cannes voted to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Moscow Alexy and return to Metropolitan Anastasius (Gribanovsky) .
Literature
- Booklet published for the 100th anniversary of the Archangel Michael Church in Cannes . - Cannes, 1994.
Notes
- ↑ According to Decree No. 93 of July 1 (14), 1927, Deputy Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Sergius
Links
- Archbishop Gregory (Ostroumov)
- Grigory (Ostroumov) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"