Gabriel (Abalymov)

Born November 18, 1881 in a peasant family. He graduated from the Zemstvo school . He graduated from the Cheboksary Theological College , then In 1904 he graduated from the Kazan Theological Seminary .

In 1905, he was tonsured a monk with the name Gabriel .

In 1908 he graduated from the Kazan Theological Academy with a degree of candidate of theology for his essay, “Moral and ascetic views of St. Macarius of Egypt (the Great) ”, in the same year he was ordained as hieromonk .

Since October 4, 1908 - teacher of the Taurida Theological Seminary .

Since August 8, 1911 - the caretaker of the Toropetsk Theological School in the Pskov province .

In 1914 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite .

From June 13, 1914 to 1917 - the caretaker of the Volsky Theological School.

In 1917-1919, he was among the brothers of the Khvalynsky Trinity Monastery.

Since 1918 - rector of the Nilo-Stolobensky desert in the Tver diocese.

February 18 or May 26, 1920 was ordained bishop of Ostashkovsky , vicar of the Tver diocese .

On December 1, 1922, he took control of the Tver Diocese .

Since February 1923 - retired, was intended by Metropolitan Sergius to the Samara diocese.

In 1923 he was arrested, sentenced to 3 years in concentration camps.

He was detained for a long time, including in a camp on Solovki from 1923 to 1926. In June 1926 he took part in the compilation of the “ Solovetsky Epistle ” (an appeal to the government of the USSR Orthodox bishops from the Solovetsky Islands).

In 1926, on charges of "failing to report on the remaining church values," he was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison, which he was serving in Tver .

Since 1927 he was in different monasteries at rest.

After the July Declaration of 1927 was passed , he joined the opposition to Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) , and joined the Danilov group .

From 1927 he served in the Novo-Solovetsky desert , then until July 1930 - in the forest monastery of the Khvalynsky monastery, 3 versts from Khvalynsk .

In July 1930, he received an appointment from Metropolitan Sergius and the Provisional Patriarchal Holy Synod to the chair in the city of Totma, Vologda Oblast, but due to opposition from the Vologda authorities he was forced to return to Moscow.

Since August 1930 he was in Moscow , in Cherkizovo .

In September 1930, he was appointed manager of the Buguruslan Vicariate of the Orenburg Diocese.

He was arrested on September 29, 1930, and an arrest and search warrant was issued to the address in Cherkizovo. During the investigation he was in Butyrka prison , and then the place of detention is unknown.

Upon his release, until 1946 he lived alone in Tashkent and other cities, and in recent years in Syzran .

In February 1950, he was sent to the disposal of the Archbishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya Andrey (Komarov) , but due to illness he could not go to his destination.

Since 1954 he lived at rest in the Assumption Monastery in the city of Odessa .

The last time before his death (according to the PSTBI , from the same 1954) he lived and reigned in the Baltic Feodosievsky monastery in Odessa region.

He died on July 31, 1958 in Balta. The funeral was performed by the Bishop of Baltic Donat (Shchegolev) . Buried in the city cemetery of Balta.

• GAVRIIL // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2005. - T. X. - S. 209. - 752 p. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-016-1 .