Vasily Bourgeois ( Charles Bourgeois ) ( 1887 , Paris , France - April 8, 1963 Sao Paulo , Brazil ) - French by nationality, hieromonk of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite , member of the Jesuit Order, member of the Russian Apostolate , worked in the communities of the Russian abroad and Neónia , worked in the communities of the Russian diaspora in countries: Poland , Czechoslovakia , Estonia , Brazil , France , the abbot of the Annunciation Church in São Paulo .
Hieromonk Basil Bourgeois sj | |
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Birth name | Bourgeois charles |
Date of Birth | 1887 |
Place of Birth | Paris |
Date of death | April 8, 1963 |
Place of death | Sao paulo |
Citizenship | France |
Occupation | Hieromonk , Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite , a member of the Jesuit Order, member of the Russian Apostolate and Neounia , worked in the communities of the Russian diaspora in countries: Poland , Czechoslovakia , Estonia , Brazil , France USSR , rector of the Blagoveshchensk temple in Sao Paulo , teacher |
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Biography
Born in Paris in 1887 , he became a monk in 1904 in the Jesuit Order , in 1920 he was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite . In 1924 - 1927 he served in Neónia in Eastern Poland , from 1927 to 1932 in the Uniate parishes of the Ruthenian tradition in Carpathian Russia in Czechoslovakia ; from 1932 - in Estonia , where during the German occupation the Gestapo was arrested, spent two years in a concentration camp , freed by the Red Army . In 1945 he moved to Moscow , served in the Temple of St. Louis of France , in 1946 he was sent to Paris . In 1951 he was sent to Brazil , where he served for 12 years as abbot of the Annunciation Church in Sao Paulo and from 1954 - rector of the orphanage of St. Vladimir for Russian boys in Itu [1] .
Publications
- Bourgeois. Ma rencontre avec la Russie: Relation du hieromoine Vassily. Buenos Aires, 1953.
Notes
- ↑ The Obituary and Diary Thoughts of Hieromonk Bourgeois // Russia and the Universal Church , № 3-4, 1965. P. 44.
Sources
- Kolupaev V.E. Russian features in Brazil in the second half of the 20th century // Yearbook of Historical and Anthropological Studies for 2011/2012 / PFUR, Interuniversity Research Center for Comparative Historical and Anthropological Studies. M: EKON-INFORM, 2012. c. 48 - 60. ISBN 978-5-9506-0928-2
- G. Roshko. On the History of the Russian Parish in Goiânia // Serving the Refugees of the World: A Russian Catholic priest testifies / A. Krysov, comments and translation. M .: Stella Aeterna, 2001. p. 1-2.
- Regis F. Russian life in Brazil // For the truth , № 242, 1954.