Archbishop Michael (in the world Mikhail Nesterovich Kochetov ; 1860 , Dubovka - April 6, 1944 , Volgograd Region ) - Primate of the Russian Old Orthodox Church with the title "Archbishop of Moscow and All Russia."
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History
Born in 1860 (?) In the city of Dubovka (now the Volgograd region).
In his youth, he left his parental home and entered as a novice in the Old Believer Malinovskiy monastery, located in the village of Malinovo, Semenovsk district, Nizhny Novgorod province. In this monastery Michael became a monk.
In 1924, Archbishop Nicholas (Pozdnev) was ordained a hieromonk , and subsequently elected rector and elevated to the rank of archimandrite .
On July 6, 1936, in the year of Gorodets of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, in the church of the Holy Prophet Elijah, Archbishop Stefan (Rastorguev) , with the bishop of Gorodetsky Pavel (Nosov), Father Superior Michael (Kochetov) was elevated to the rank of bishop in the Romanovo-Borisoglebsky pulpit.
After Archbishop Stefan (Rastorguev) was repressed by Soviet punitive bodies in September 1937, Bishop Mikhail was elected the new Primate of the Russian Old Orthodox Church. His intronization took place at the end of May 1938.
In fact, all the clergy were then in an illegal situation. Michael in worldly clothes wandered around the country from parish to parish in deep secrecy, ordaining the clergy.
He died on April 6, 1944 near the Malinovsky monastery, in which he worked for many years.
Links
- Mikhail (Kochetov) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
- Mikhail (Kochetov) on the Anti-Split website