Archbishop Alexander (in the world Alexander Andreevich Pokhvalinsky ; March 4 (16), 1865 , Khokhloma village, Makaryevsky district , Kostroma province - December 11, 1937 , Gorky ) - bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , archbishop of Bogorodsky , vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese .
Biography
Born on March 4, 1865 in the village of Khokhloma, Makaryevsky district, Kostroma province, in the family of a deacon [1] . He was baptized on March 7 of the same year in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Khokhloma [2] .
In 1880 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological College [3] . In 1886 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary [1] . Psalm reader of the Vladimir Church (Kanavino) in Nizhny Novgorod [4] .
September 21, 1886 appointed psalmist of the Vladimir (Kanavinsky) Church of Nizhny Novgorod [3] .
On February 28, 1889, he was elevated to the rank of priest and assigned to the Assumption Church of the village of Alexandrovsky, Sergach Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Diocese. In 1893 he was widowed [3] .
In September 1901, he was appointed priest of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod [2] . On April 7, 1905 he was awarded a kamilavka [3] .
March 19, 1909 was awarded the pectoral cross issued by the Holy Synod [3] .
In 1917 he was appointed dean of the Nizhny Novgorod cathedrals and house churches. On June 14 of the same year he was awarded the rank of archpriest [3] .
December 27, 1918 appointed rector of the Spassky Old Fair Cathedral of Nizhny Novgorod [3] .
On June 16, 1922, the Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod Evdokim (Meshchersky) signed the Memorandum of Three , in which they recognized the canonicity of the renewed Higher Church Administration and called on their flock and the entire Russian Orthodox Church to submit to it [5] . Archpriest Alexander Pokhvalinsky followed his ruling bishop.
On June 29, 1922, in Nizhny Novgorod, having accepted the ryasophore, he was consecrated bishop of Pavlovsky , vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese . The consecration was performed by: Archbishop Evdokim (Meshchersky) , Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) and Bishop Polycarp (Tikhonravov) [3] .
On August 25 ( September 7 ), 1923 , Patriarch Tikhon received communion with the Church [6] .
April 12, 1925 signed an act on the transfer of supreme church authority to Metropolitan Peter Krutitsky (Polyansky) [7] .
On September 26, 1929, he was appointed bishop of Bogorodsky, the vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese [7] with the order to temporarily manage the Gorky diocese with the constant absence of Metropolitan Gorky Sergius (Stragorodsky) , who was deputy Moscow Patriarchal Locum Tenens. He lived in Gorky [7] .
October 2, 1932 he was appointed bishop of Podolsky , vicar of the Moscow diocese with the elevation to the rank of archbishop .
Since October 20, 1932 - Archbishop of Bogorodsky, Vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese. He lived in Bogorodsk [7] .
In April 1933 he was awarded the right to wear the cross on the hood [3] .
On February 11, 1934, according to the petition, he was released from the administration of the Gorky diocese with the abandonment of the archbishop of Bogorodsky.
On May 8, 1934, he sent a report to the Deputy Patriarchal Locum Tenens, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) , in which he congratulated him on the dignity of the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomensky with the right to wear two panagias , adding these words “expressing to you an unprincipled joy, at the same time I deeply I grieve that this elevation, unexpected for us, deprives us of the opportunity to have you directly a leader, according to the word of God, an angel, the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) Church, a mentor and teacher for believers, affectionate father, loving and wise, a good advisor to all who when he had need before you. I personally will feel especially great deprivation ... the bishop who always needed and used your guidance ” [8] .
November 3, 1937 was arrested in Bogorodsk . In one case with him, nine priests, three deacons and an elder from Nizhny Novgorod were arrested. On December 2, a troika at the UNKVD of the USSR in the Gorky Region was sentenced to death for allegedly being an “active member of the Gorky Church Fascist, espionage and rebel organization” [7] .
Shot on December 11, 1937 in Gorky [3] .
The definition of the Military Tribunal of the Moscow Military District of March 18, 1957 rehabilitated in 1937 [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 ALEXANDER // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2000. - T. I. - S. 501. - 752 p. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-006-4 .
- ↑ 1 2 Alexander Pokhvalinsky
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lavrinov Valery, Archpriest. The renovationist schism in the portraits of his figures. (Materials on the history of the Church. Book 54). M. 2016.
- ↑ Tikhon (Zatekin), Degteva O.V. Saints of the Nizhny Novgorod Land. - N-Novgorod, 2003.
- ↑ Russian Orthodox Church of the Twentieth Century June 11 / Orthodoxy.Ru
- ↑ [1] : List of persons accepted into communion with His Holiness the Patriarch
1. Bishop Seraphim of Murom - 13.08
2. Bishop Polycarp Lukoyanovsky - 08.25
3. Archbishop Nicholas, b. Tobolsky - 08.25
4. Bishop Alexander Pavlovsky of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese - 08.25
5. Bishop Makarii of Vasilsur of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese - 25.09
6. Bishop Macarius (Opocki) - without the right to worship - 9.10
7. Bishop Philip - 9.10 - ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alexander (Pohvalinsky Alexander Andreevich) // Database “New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th Century”
- ↑ Documents of the Moscow Patriarchate: 1934 . / Publ. and comment. A.K. Galkina // Bulletin of Church History. 2010. No. 3/4 (19/20). // Bulletin of church history . 2010. No. 3-4 (19-20). p. 203-204.