Bishop Nikolai (in the world Nikolai Nikitich Orlov ; December 17, 1859 - June 9, 1922 , Tsaritsyn ) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , Bishop of Nizhne-Chirsky, Vicar of the Don Diocese .
| Bishop Nicholas | ||
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| August 1921 - June 9, 1922 | ||
| Birth name | Nikolay Nikitich Orlov | |
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Biography
Born December 17, 1859 in a family of a priest of the Tambov province
He graduated from the Tambov Theological Seminary , then the Moscow Theological Academy in 1886 [1] .
From March 27, 1887 for two years he taught homiletics and liturgics at the Vladimir Theological Seminary , where he immediately established himself as a talented teacher. December 22, 1888 a young teacher was invited to the Tambov Theological Seminary as a teacher in basic, dogmatic and moral theology. Two years later, from December 27, 1890, he began to teach literature and the history of literature. Since September 27, 1891, he also taught the history of Russian literature at the Tambov Diocesan Women's College [2] .
In the fall of 1910, he was appointed to the high post of the Ufa diocesan observer of church schools. Under Orlov, according to contemporaries, the church schools of the Ufa diocese came to life and flourished [2] .
From 1914 to 1917 Nikolay Nikitich was the director of the Synodal schools in the city of Novocherkassk, Don region [2] .
After 1917, information about him became fragmentary. Apparently, between 1917 and 1921, his wife Zinaida Viktorovna died, with whom he lived for at least 20 years, and remained with five daughters. Widowed, takes monastic tonsure [2] .
In August 1921 he was ordained bishop of Nizhne-Chirsky, vicar of the Don diocese [2] .
On April 12, 1922, the plenipotentiary representative of the GPU informed Tsaritsyn that the bishop was “conducting counter-revolutionary agitation” in the 2nd Donokrug, and two weeks later a report had been sent to Moscow about his arrest along with several priests and other persons. The first interrogation was already done on April 12th. Vladyka was accused of allegedly leading a group that "actively opposed the implementation of the decree on the seizure of church property in favor of the starving."
He was arrested on April 20, 1922, with the charge of "counter-revolutionary agitation." Bishop Nikolai and two clergy were convicted at the “exemplary” trial that took place in the city of Tsaritsyn. He died in prison from cholera or typhoid . According to other sources, shot.
On November 20, 2007, the UFSB and the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region were rehabilitated after the appeal of the Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin German to the prosecutor of the Volgograd region and the regional UFSB [3] .
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Links
- Nikolai (Orlov Nikolay Nikitich) // New Martyrs and Confessors of the 20th century Russian Orthodox Church