Nikolai Artemoff

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Archpriest Nikolai Artemoff (right)

Nikolai Aleksandrowitch Artemoff ( Russian: Николай Александрович Артёмов ; born April 21, 1950 , Hessen ) is a clergyman, archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany , curator of the cathedral in Munich and secretary of the German diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad . He heads the Russian Orthodox community in Munich.

Born in the family of the Russian emigrant Aleksandr Nikolajewitsch Artemoff. Nikolai Artemoff. grew up in Hessen and spent his school and study time there. In Frankfurt am Main he attended the Helmholtz School . He made friends with Archimandrite Mark , who had attended the same grammar school, during his time in Wiesbaden as head of the local community.

After Archimandrite Mark's appointment as bishop, Artemoff moved to Munich and looked after numerous rural communities. The German diocese entrusted him with various tasks: for example, he works on the translation commission entrusted by the Orthodox Bishops' Conference in Germany with the translation of liturgical texts into German.

Artemoff has been elected secretary of the German diocese since the early 1980s. Between 1981 and 1996 he was head of the Church of Sergius von Radonesch (Bad Kissingen) . Father Nikolai has been organizing and leading the annual Munich seminar on Orthodoxy since 1981.

In the 1990s, Artemoff took part in the talks with Archbishop Feofan Galinsky of Berlin and the priests of the Berlin diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate , which were supposed to lay the foundation for the reunification process. After 2000 Father Nikolai became a member of the Commission for the Restoration of Unity of the Russian Church. There he worked until the signing of the Act on Canonical Communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On May 22, 2016, Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany granted him the right to wear the miter , according to the decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Biography: Archpriest Nikolai Artemoff . From: sobor.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Barbara Weiß, Johannes Reichardt: A spiritual home in the distance ( Memento from December 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). On: br.de, February 6, 2017
  4. ↑ https://www.karlovtchanin.eu/index.php/istoriaeparkii/882-gazeta-nasha-strana-intervyu-ottsa-germana-ivanova-trinadtsatogo
  5. ^ VEH series of publications, 10, Association of former Helmholtz students. V., Frankfurt am Main 2016, pp. 96–97
  6. ↑ Now Father Frost is coming to the region . In: Augsburger Allgemeine, January 4, 2016. From: augsburger-allgemeine.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  7. ↑ Information on the Russian Orthodox Church . In: Abendzeitung Munich, March 12, 2013. From: abendzeitung-muenchen.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  8. ↑ We receive great approval . In: Die Tagespost, June 17, 2016. On: die-tagespost.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  9. ^ Archpriest Nikolai Artemoff . From: rocor.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Artemoff, Nikolai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artemoff, Nikolai Aleksandrowitch (full name); Артёмов, Николай Александрович (long-ru)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Russian Orthodox Archpriest
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1950