Alexy (Zamaraev)

Born June 24, 1855 in the Vologda province in the family of a priest ^[1] .

In 1872 he graduated from St. Nicholas Theological College . In 1878 he graduated from the Vologda Theological Seminary . In 1883 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy with a degree of candidate of theology . Graduate student of the practical department ^[1] .

Since November 22, 1883 he taught at the Poshekhonsky Theological School of the Yaroslavl Diocese ^[1] .

March 31, 1885 ordained to the priesthood. On April 30, 1885, he was appointed rector of the Alexander Nevsky Church at the Yekaterinoslavsky Gymnasium. At the same time, from May 1, 1885, he served as the legal teacher of the Ekaterinoslav male and female gymnasiums and the Yekaterinoslav real school ^[1] .

On July 1, 1886 he was appointed the legal teacher of the Vologda Gymnasium and the Vologda Real School. At the same time, from December 5, 1887 to August 1, 1891, he was the law teacher of the Vologda Alexandria Orphanage for the Departments of the Institutions of Empress Maria Fedorovna . December 31, 1887 awarded the Legguard . On May 13, 1891 he was awarded a velvet violet skufyu . April 12, 1895 was awarded a kamilavka ^[1] .

Military and Maritime Clergy Service

He moved to the department of military and naval clergy. Since April 20, 1898, he served as a priest in the church of artillery units and institutions of the Moscow Military District ^[1] . At the same time, on September 22, 1899, he was the legal teacher of the Moscow Alexander Orphanage for the Departments of Institutions of the Empress Maria Fedorovna ^[2] .

On April 8, 1901, he was appointed priest of the Trinity Church of the 6th Grenadier Tauride Regiment and dean of the 2nd Grenadier Division. April 13, 1901 was awarded the pectoral cross issued by the Holy Synod ^[2] .

On February 12, 1903 he was appointed priest of the Alexander Nevsky Church at the Admiralty Marine Hospital of St. Petersburg ^[2] .

On April 24, 1903 he was appointed priest of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church of the Life Guards of the Cavalry Guard Empress Maria Fedorovna Regiment ^[2] .

October 31, 1903 he was appointed priest of the Panteleimon Church of the Voronezh Disciplinary Battalion and Dean of the 1st Brigade of the Cavalry Reserve. On April 7, 1905 he was awarded the rank of Archpriest ^[2] .

On July 14, 1905 he was appointed priest of the Grigorievsky Admiralty Cathedral of the city of Nikolaev in the Kherson province. Simultaneously from September 23, 1905 to January 1, 1906 there was a law teacher of the Nikolaev male gymnasium. At the same time from September 1, 1906 to June 10, 1907 he was the legal teacher of the Nikolaev port school. At the same time from October 23, 1906 to June 1, 1907 he was the legal teacher of the Nikolaev Real School ^[2] .

May 10, 1907 he was appointed priest of the Spiridon Admiralty Cathedral of St. Petersburg. At the same time from 1907 to September 1, 1909 he was the law teacher of the cathedral church and parish school and port craft school ^[2] .

On August 17, 1909, a priest of the St. Jerofeevsky Church of the 19th Dragoon Arkhangelogorodsky Regiment, stationed in the city of Borisov, Minsk Province. Widowed ^[2] .

May 28, 1911 he was dismissed from the Office of the military and naval clergy ^[2] . Protopresbyter Georgy Shavelsky, who headed this department, in his memoirs described the circumstances of his dismissal ^[3] :

In 1911, in the Office of the Protopresbyter of the naval and naval clergy, a loud and complicated case arose about the archpriest of the 19th Arkhangelogorodsky Dragoon Regiment Anatoly Zamaraev accusing him of a long series of the most rude frauds in marriages. There were erasures of documents, hacking of seals, falsification of signatures, marriages of married or closest relatives, the abduction of someone else’s wanted book. Zamaraev himself, the candidate of the Moscow Theological Academy, was at that time a type of completely deserted person. The case, due to the complexity and seriousness of the crimes, fell into the hands of the civil court prosecutor. Cruel punishment hung over Zamaraev’s head. Not bewildered, the latter, however, found a way out. Appearing to Archbishop Anthony , later the Kiev Metropolitan, he announced his desire to accept tonsure. <...> If Zamaraev had remained in the white clergy, he would have been disheartened and, if not sentenced to hard labor, he would have been sent to prison.

Hieromonk and Archimandrite

On September 13, 1911, he was enrolled in the brotherhood of the Kornilievo-Komelsky monastery of the Vologda diocese . March 17, 1912 was tonsured a monk with the name Alexy ^[2] .

September 21, 1912 he was appointed a teacher of accusatory theology , history and denunciation of the Old Believers and sectarianism of the Olonets Theological Seminary ^[4] . At the same time, on January 15, 1913, he was Acting Second Assistant Inspector of the Seminary ^[2] .

April 4, 1913 was appointed superintendent of the Sevsky Theological School of the Oryol Diocese ^[2] .

October 13, 1915 appointed Dean of the male and female monasteries of the Oryol diocese. November 17, 1917 was elevated to the rank of archimandrite ^[2] .

In 1918 he was appointed rector of the Bryansk Svensky Assumption Monastery of the Oryol Diocese ^[2] .

On September 9, 1921, he was consecrated bishop of Bezhetsky , vicar of the Tver diocese ^[5] .

Upgrade

In 1922, he declined to renovationism and was appointed temporarily manager of the Bryansk renovation diocese ^[2] .

In April-May 1923 he was a member of the "Second All-Russian Local Council" ^[2] .

On August 21, 1923, he was appointed Bishop of Bryansk and Bezhitsky, Chairman of the Renovationist Bryansk Diocesan Administration, with the elevation to the rank of Archbishop. The department was located in the Transfiguration (Novopokrovsky) Cathedral of Bryansk ^[2] .

In June 1924 he was a member of the renovationist All-Russian Pre-Council meeting ^[2] .

On June 25, 1924, he was appointed Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsky, Chairman of the Renovationist Kaluga Diocesan Administration. The department was located in the Annunciation Church of Kaluga ^[6] .

On December 9, 1924, he was appointed Archbishop of Tauride and Simferopol, Chairman of the Renovational Taurian Diocesan Administration. The department was located in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Simferopol. In 1925 he was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan ^[6] .

On June 23, 1925, he was appointed manager of the Crimean Metropolis with the title "Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean" ^[6] .

In October 1925 he was a member of the Third All-Russian Local Council (second Renovationist), at which he was elected a member of the All-Russian Renovationist Synod ^[6] .

December 25, 1925 elected chairman of the renovational Crimean Metropolitan Church Administration ^[6] .

In October 1926 he was appointed Metropolitan of Tver, but did not accept the appointment ^[6] .

He died on April 18, 1927, not being reconciled with the Church ^[7] . He was buried in the lower church of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Simferopol. September 19, 1930, in connection with the closing of the cathedral, was reburied at the new city cemetery in Simferopol ^[6] .

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