Hermogenes (Dolganjow)

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Bishop Hermogenes

Hermogenes ( Russian Гермоген even Germogen ; born April 25 . Jul / 7. May  1858 greg. As Georgi Yefremovich Dolganjow in Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 29. June 1918 in Tobolsk ) was a Russian Orthodox priest. He was Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia and supported the Nationalist League of the Russian People and the Black Hundreds . He was canonized in 1999 .

Life

Georgi Dolganjow, son of a priest , attended school in Ananyev near Odessa . While studying law at the New Russian University in Odessa, he undertook a handwritten castration in order to achieve moral perfection, which was attributed to an influence of the Skopzen . In 1890 he received the tonsure as a monk, took the religious name Hermogenes and became Hieromonach in 1893 . In the same year he finished his spiritual studies at the Academy in Saint Petersburg and became inspector of the Theological Seminary in Tbilisi . After he was rector of the seminary in 1898, he left Josef Dzhugashvili, later Stalin , imprison in a cell because it's novel in 1793 by Victor Hugo read and classmates had been informed of Marxism. In 1903 he became Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn and took a seat in the Holy Synod .

As an anti-Semite and nationalist, Hermogenes was a staunch supporter of the extreme right-wing Black Hundreds. He preached xenophobia and blind devotion to the Russian autocracy . He hated the intelligentsia and thought that every revolutionary should be hanged. The Metropolitan Antoni (Chrapowitzki, from 1863 to 1936) described him in a letter as a "self-deluded fools extremely limited [...] With his castration as a student at the University of New Russian he has a normal temperament withheld."

Rasputin, Hermogen and Iliodor in 1906.

In 1905, at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Petersburg, Hermogenes met the later Archbishop Theophan and Rasputin , whom he was initially fascinated by. Soon, however, the relationship turned into bitter enmity. Hermogenes spread rumors that Rasputin, respected at the court of the Tsars, was a supporter of the secret society of the Chlysten . In the autumn of 1911, on the occasion of the nomination of a candidate for bishopric, there was a violent dispute with Rasputin and Iliodor . Rasputin complained to Tsar Nicholas II after Hermogenes hit him with a crucifix. Hermogenes and Iliodor were banished by Tsarina Alexandra , Hermogenes was sent to the Shirovichsky Monastery in the Grodno Governorate in Belarus .

From August 1915 he lived in the Nikolaus Monastery in today's Dzerzhinsky . In 1917 he was appointed Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia. In April 1918 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks and drowned after an unsuccessful mediation attempt in the Tura , on the banks of which his archenemy Rasputin had grown up. His body was found on July 3, 1918 and buried in the St. Sophia Cathedral in the Tobolsk Kremlin .

After he was canonized by the Bishops' Council of the Orthodox Church Abroad in 1981, he was canonized as a martyr by the Orthodox Church in 1999 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas Smith: Rasputin , The First Test. Pp. 134-135.

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