Theodore Wilcock ( Wilcock , 1906 , England - January 25, 1985 ) - an English Catholic priest , a Byzantine Jesuit , a member of the Neo-Unions in Poland and the Russian Apostle in Abroad , a teacher at St. George's boarding school in Namur and head of educational institutions for Russian children in China and Brazil , founder of the Russian Center of Vladimir Solovyov at Ford University in New York (Russian Center Fordham University. New York, 58), rector of the parish of St. up Andrei in Los Angeles , a prisoner of the Japanese concentration camps and the Gulag , a participant in the congresses of Russian Catholics in Rome in 1950 and 1979 .
| Theodore Wilcock | |
|---|---|
| Wilcock | |
| Birth name | Wilcock |
| Date of Birth | 1906 |
| Place of Birth | England |
| Date of death | January 25, 1985 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles |
| Citizenship |  England |
| Nationality |  USA |
| Occupation | hieromonk sj , missionary  Manzhou guo  Republic of China  China , teacher  France  Brazil |
Biography
Born in England , joined the Jesuit Order, in 1929, at the call of Pope Pius XI, he entered Russicum . He was ordained priest in 1935 . Sent to Poland to work in neunia . Several times crossed the border of the USSR , from where he managed to return safely. In 1939, he arrived in China to work with Russian emigrants where the Catholic Church created the Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin , sent to Shanghai , where the Russian Catholic Mission in Shanghai operated with the Church of St. Nicholas , in which Archimandrite Nikolai (Alekseev) served. He headed a boarding school for boys and was a confessor at the Hagia Sophia school for Russian girls. During the period of Japanese occupation, survived the arrest and imprisonment in a concentration camp . In 1945 he returned to Shanghai . In 1949 , when the Chinese Communist Party came to power , he hastily evacuated 6,500 Russians to a camp on the islands of Tubabao and Samar in the Philippines , and for several years managed one of the temporary settlements of Russian refugees.
Having moved to Europe, he taught at the boarding school of St. George in Namur, since 1950 he lived in New York , where he founded the Russian Center named after Vladimir Solovyov at Ford University (Russian Center Fordham University. New York, 58), he was helped by the Jesuits Fionan Brannigan and John Ryder. The objectives of the center were: the organization of the Russian faculty, the publication of books in Russian and English on Russian issues, reading reports on Russia and the USSR , on the Eastern rites of the Catholic Church. There was a house church at the center, opened on December 9, 1951 , in which Russian cultural values saved from Shanghai were stored: a menorah and more than a hundred icons, especially the image of St. Seraphim of Sarov .
In 1955 he was appointed director of the Institute of St. Vladimir in Itu , Brazil , simultaneously from 1957 - 1966 - the place of worship is the Temple of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (São Paulo) .
In 1967 he returned to New York as director of the ecumenical center at Ford University, then - rector of the parish of St. up St. Andrew's in Los Angeles (St. Andrew Russian Greek Catholic Church - El Segundo, California)
Literature
- Eternal memory of. Fedor // Friends and acquaintances. - Sao Paulo, 1985, 5. - p. 1-2.
- Dear guest, Father Fedor // To friends and acquaintances. - Sao Paulo, 1977, 01-02. - with. one.
- Nikolaev K. N. The Eastern Rite. - Paris: YMCA, 1950 .-- p. 213.
- Russian Catholic Herald, 1951, No. 1. - p. 20.
- Russian thought. - Paris, 1954, 11.6.
- Roshko George, Protopresbyter. In the service of the world's refugees: testifies to the Russian Catholic priest. - M .: Stella aeterna, 2001 .-- S. 76-77, 167.
- Russian Center // Russian Catholic Herald, 1952, No. 4. - p. 22.
- Schepina E. Memories of China // Russian Catholic Herald, 1952, No. 1. - p.25.