Bishop Dometian (in the world Dmitry Vasilievich Gorokhov ; May 26 ( June 7 ) 1879 [1] , the village of Ilyok, Belgorod Uyezd , Kursk Province - December 20, 1937 , Mariinsk ) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , Bishop of Arzamassky , Vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese .
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Biography
Born in 1879 in the village of Ilyok-Koshary, Belgorod district, Kursk province (now Rakityansky district of the Belgorod region ). In the case of 1937 it is written that he is a native of the village of Podol, Kursk region. He was a native of the clergy.
In 1909 he graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy with the degree of candidate of theology, the right to obtain a master’s degree without a new oral test [2] and was appointed assistant inspector of the Academy. In 1914 he defended his master's thesis in theology.
Combined an inspection post at the academy with teaching at a private gymnasium in the Kiev district.
In 1915 he was drafted into the army , studied at the Nikolaev School , which he graduated in 1916, received the rank of ensign and served at the school until 1917.
Then he returned to his former position at the Kiev Theological Academy and worked in this field until its closure in 1919. After that, until 1925 he taught.
In 1925 he went to Moscow and was tonsured a monk with the name Dometian at the Pokrovsky monastery , and then ordained to the rank of hieromonk .
He served in the Pokrovsky monastery. His activity was met with a positive review by Archimandrite Benjamin (Milov) , who was then Acting Governor of the monastery. In his diary entry dated April 18, 1928, we read: “My preaching activity at the monastery coincided with the Master of Theology hieromonk Dometian (Gorokhov), later Bishop of Arzamas. Perhaps, in order to gain popularity, he showed an enviable indefatigability in the gospel of the word of God. His hard work in the field of preaching the gospel was soon noticed by the authorities, and, to the surprise of the congregation, he was unexpectedly arrested for four months. Apparently, they took him to prison instead of me and accused him of helping His Grace Guria to streamline the monastic life, while I, in fact, was a comrade-in-arms of Bishop Guriy ” [3] .
On August 1, 1928, he was consecrated bishop of Arzamas , vicar of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese .
He headed this department three years before his first arrest in 1931. Obviously, Bishop Dometian went through the group-organized Arzamas case of the “clergy” fabricated by the Chekists as the leader of the so-called “counter-revolutionary” organization. The trial of the bishop itself took place on September 23, 1932, and as a result was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
On October 3, 1932, over the decision of the Church Court for canonical crimes committed by him, he was deprived of the right to occupy the bishop's departments and was sentenced to a three-year ban on priesthood (until October 3, 1935). By the Synodal Decree of November 30, 1933: “... the available and heard material, although it establishes the blissful behavior of Bishop Dometian in relation to the female sex, does not contain any definite evidence for accusing him of the act of fornication ... Without depriving Bishop Dometian ( Gorokhov) of the holy dignity, to declare him to be deprived of his capacity to occupy the bishop's departments, and, having continued up to three years (until October 3, 1935) the prohibition imposed on him in priesthood, the wearing of the bishop's mantle and panagia, to entrust the bishop Dometian at his place of residence under the special supervision of the diocesan bishop ” [4] .
Since 1932, Bishop Dometian was at the construction site of the White Sea-Baltic Canal , in 1933 he was released ahead of schedule, obviously, like many surviving “drummers” of this channel, and then he was able to submit to the Synod Metropolitan Sergius an explanation of his “case”. Ryazan became his place of residence, since 1934 he served there in the Sorrowful Church.
On August 28, 1936 he was arrested on charges of "counter-revolutionary activity." On December 2, 1936, Bishop Dometian was sentenced by a special conference at the NKVD of the USSR “for counter-revolutionary activity” to three years of forced labor camps. In his camp registration and reference card it appears that the prisoner was “placed at the disposal of the Siblag ” ( Mariinsk, Novosibirsk Region ). He was sent to Siblag camps from the Syrzan prison on January 3, 1937, and "arrived (at) the Oryol-Rozovsky clause on June 15, 1937."
On November 24, 1937, he was arrested in the Oryol-Rozovsky point of Siblag, along with other "conspirators." Then he was searched, according to the results of which only “three cans of canned food” were seized.
On December 8, 1937, a trio of the UNKVD in the Novosibirsk Region was sentenced to death. On December 20, 1937 he was shot as a member of a group of prisoners from 19 prisoners convicted with him in the same case, in Mariinsk or its environs.
Proceedings
- “On the subject of Christian apologetics and the subject of Christian theology in general.” Kiev, 1911.
- "Buddhism in comparison with Christianity." (Master's dissertation). Kiev, 1914.
Notes
- ↑ Composition of the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church on the eve of great terror. The list of bishops from the archival investigation of Metropolitan Seraphim (Aleksandrov) 1937 , p. 134
- ↑ Graduates of the Kiev Theological Academy
- ↑ Bishop Benjamin (Milov) Monk's Diary
- ↑ Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. 1934