Lazar (in the world Mikhail Ivanovich Lyubimov ; December 22, 1897 , the village of Litvinovo , Naro-Fominsky district , Moscow province - December 22, 1937 , Butovo training ground , Moscow region ) - the renewal bishop of Morshansky, the vicar of the Moscow diocese, until 1935 - secret bishop of Joseph.
| Bishop Lazarus | ||
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| September 1935 - March 9, 1936 | ||
| Church | renovationism | |
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| January 19 - September 1935 | ||
| Church | renovationism | |
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| 1930 - 1932 | ||
| Community | Josephites | |
| Birth name | Mikhail Ivanovich Lyubimov | |
| Birth | Litvinovo village, Naro-Fominsky district , Moscow province | |
| Death | Butovo training ground , Moscow region | |
| Buried | ||
Biography
He was born on December 22, 1897 in the village of Litvinovo, Narofominsky district, Moscow province, in the family of a “minister of worship”. Father — Ivan Ivanovich Lyubimov (1876–1915), priest, mother — Tatyana Ivanovna (1880–1922), brothers were also priests — Nikolai Ivanovich (buried in the Penza region), Vladimir Ivanovich (buried in the Orenburg region), Alexander Ivanovich ( shot), Victor Ivanovich (1904-1938), Sergey Ivanovich and Veniamin Ivanovich (1905-1976), sisters - Maria (1901) and Catherine (1909-2002).
He graduated from the seminary. Since 1919 he was ordained a priest .
In 1922 he graduated in absentia from the Moscow Theological Academy , which then acted illegally. While studying, he served in the Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God in Klin, near Moscow, where, after the death of his father, his family lived. Near the temple, his mother, Tatyana Ivanovna, was buried.
Condemned the declaration of the Deputy Patriarchal Locum Tenens and the Provisional Patriarchal Synod under him of July 29, 1927. Subsequently, he separated from Metropolitan Sergius, joining the Josephite movement . He said that "... in no case should believers recognize the Sergian Church , as this leads to some reconciliation with the existing system ..." [1] .
Since 1928 he served in the Church of St. Nicholas the Big Cross on Ilyinka in Moscow.
Widowed. In 1930, he became a monk and, according to some reports, secretly consecrated by the Josephites as bishop of Bronnitsky.
Since May 1931 - rector of the Church of St. Nicholas the Great Cross on Ilyinka [2] .
In the fall of 1931 he headed the Moscow Josephites [2] .
In December 1931 he traveled to Crimea to the Joseph Bishop Gabriel (Krasnovsky) [3] .
In 1932 he was arrested in the case of the Moscow branch of the CPI and sentenced to 3 years in prison, which were replaced by exile. After the liberation, he moved to updating [4] .
On January 6, 1935, he was reassigned by the Renovationists to the bishop, according to his statement that he had been ordained bishop by the "anarchist" old church bishop Andrei (Ukhtomsky) with the title of Bishop of Zagorsky, the vicar of the Moscow diocese, and considered this ordination invalid.
January 7, 1935, the day after the ordination, was appointed rector of the Church of All Saints in All Saints in Moscow .
January 19 to September 1935 - the updating bishop of Klinsky.
Since September 1935 - the renovationist bishop of Morshansky, rector of the Trinity Cathedral in Morshansk, Tambov Region.
March 9, 1936 fired for the state. He worked as an accountant in a cafe. He had a wife and a minor son. Like many of the Renovationists, he was a secret informant of the GPU [4] .
December 9, 1937 he was appointed priest of the Orenburg Dmitrov Church.
December 15, 1937 arrested. He was accused of “organizing a monarchist group of priests, campaigning against elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, praising the monarchical system, preparing the church for illegal existence in case of closure of the latter, spreading provocative rumors about the alleged existence in the USSR persecution of religion and the clergy, about the war and the allegedly quick death of the power, about the difficult financial situation of workers in the USSR, etc., that is, in the crime stipulated by Articles 58, Items 10 and 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. ” The investigation was conducted with a gross violation of procedural rules. During the investigation he behaved courageously, did not admit false accusations [4] .
On December 20, 1937, he was sentenced by a troika at the UNKVD of the USSR in the Moscow Region under Art. Art. 58-10 and 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (the organization of the counter-revolutionary monarchist group and the spread of provocative rumors) to capital punishment.
December 22, 1937 he was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.
Notes
- ↑ About the investigation of Bishop Seraphim (Zvezdinsky) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment October 22, 2013. Archived October 23, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Biographical information
- ↑ GAVRIIL // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church and Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2005. - T. X. - S. 221-222. - 752 s. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-016-1 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 V.V. Lobanov The case of the “bishop" Lazarus (archival documents on the persecution of the renovationist clergy during the Great Terror years)
Links
- Lazar (Lyubimov) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"