Victor Pavlovich Novikov ( 1905 , Kazan , Russian Empire - May 14, 1979 , Belebey , Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ) - Exarch of Siberia , priest of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite , member of the Jesuit Order, member of the Russian Apostle , prisoner of the Gulag .
| Victor Pavlovich Novikov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Kazan , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | May 14, 1979 |
| Place of death | Belebey , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Poland |
| Occupation | Exarch of Siberia , a priest of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite , a member of the Jesuit Order, a member of the Russian Apostolate , a prisoner of the Gulag . |
Biography
Born in 1905 in Kazan. From childhood, he was brought up in the family of a Polish engineer Holev.
In 1923 he was sentenced to 5 months in prison for attempting to illegally cross the Soviet-Polish border.
In 1924 he received Polish citizenship and went to Poland , where he graduated from the Catholic Theological Seminary , in 1927 joined the Jesuit monastic order near Slonim , entered the Jagiellonian University in Krakow to study philosophy, continued his theological education at the Gregorian University in Rome .
In 1934 he was ordained a priest. In 1938 he was appointed professor at a seminary in Dubno , designed to train cadres for Neunia in the eastern regions of Poland . From Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky he was appointed vice exarch of the Russian Greek Catholic Church , which at that time was headed by archimandrite Clement Sheptytsky and with a group of priests, among whom was Walter Chishek .
He was illegally sent to the USSR . Since March 1940 he lived in the city of Chusovoy in the Urals . On June 23, 1941 he was arrested as an agent of the Vatican and charged with anti-Soviet agitation and espionage. September 23, 1942 sentenced under Art. 58–6 and 58–10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 15 years of corrective labor.
After the Exarchate Council in Lviv 1942 , which divided the Exarchate in the USSR into Russian and Siberian exarchates, he was appointed to head the Exarchate of Siberia .
In 1943 he was sent to Vorkutlag . January 20, 1954 was released ahead of schedule and sent to Bashkiria . He lived in Belebey , where he taught Latin at a medical school.
Evidence that Novikov was in the dignity of the bishop is brought by His Grace Pavlo (Vasilik) (1926-2004), lord of the Kolomian-Chernivtsi diocese of the UGCC , who, being arrested on June 23, 1941 and being in the camp in Zhezkazgan , was secretly ordained Novikov to the dignity on January 1, 1950. deacon [1] .
Sources
- Osipova I. In my ulcers, hide me. M. 1996.S. 187.
- Investigation case No. 888 // TsL FSB of the Russian Federation.