Bishop Andrian (in the world Andrei Yakovlevich Berdyshev ; September 1, 1871 , Laya village, Verkhotursky uyezd , Perm province - June 1934 ) - bishop of the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Old Believers accepting the Belarussian hierarchy) , bishop of Semipalatinsk and Miass.
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Biography
He was ordained by Bishop Anthony as a priest about 1907 in the St. Nicholas Old Believers Church in Lae.
Around 1909, he was transferred by the second priest of the Trinity Church of the city of Yekaterinburg , and after the death of Pimen Ognev he became rector of the church, elevated to the rank of archpriest [1] .
In 1919 he was widowed and in 1920, taking monastic tonsure with the name Andrian.
In 1922, at the Deanery Congress, held with the participation of Bishop Tikhon (Sukhov) , he was elected a candidate for bishop. It was assumed that the consecration would be performed by Bishops Tikhon (Sukhov) and Ioannikiy (Ivanov) , but the latter could not arrive at the appointed time, and Bishop Andrei refused the sole ordination [2] .
In August 1922 he arrived in Moscow, and on September 1 (13), the bishops of Ryazan and Egorievsky Alexander (Bogatenkov) and Kaluga-Smolensk Savoy (Ananyev) were consecrated bishop [2] .
He participated in the work of the Consecrated Councils in 1925-1927.
On January 6 (19), 1930, the Miass People's Court sentenced him to imprisonment for two years, then about two and a half months later was released from custody with the replacement of the term of imprisonment for a three-year exile in Arkhangelsk . In mid-May 1930 he arrived in Arkhangelsk, where he received an order to go to Veliky Ustyug , and in this city - to the village of Voznesenie-Vokhma of the Belkovsky village council of the North Dvinsky okrug according to the then administrative-territorial division [2] .
The temporary management of the diocese by decision of the Council of the Archdiocese of May 19 (June 1) 1930 was entrusted to Bishop Irinarch (Parfyonov) . At the end of the exile, Bishop Andrian returned to his homeland.
In June 1934 he died. According to oral evidence after a hernia surgery. He was buried in the village of Malaya Laya, Sverdlovsk Region [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Beloborodov S.A. "Austrians" in the Urals and in Western Siberia (From the History of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church - Belokrinitsky consent)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Andrian (Bishop of Semipalatinsk and Miass) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment May 28, 2012. Archived March 17, 2016.