Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Kolchizki

Nikolai Fedorovich Koltschizki ( Russian Николай Фёдорович Колчицкий ; born 5 April ^{. Jul} / 17th April  1890 ^greg. In the village Loska , Chernigov Governorate ; † 11. January 1961 in Moscow ) was a Russian Archpriest and senior church official of the Russian Orthodox Church .

Life

Kolchizki completed his training at the Chernigov Spiritual Seminary in 1911 and then continued his studies at the Moscow Spiritual Academy until 1915. In 1914 he was ordained a deacon. After the October Revolution in 1918, he was elected permanent priest of the Annunciation Cathedral in Kharkov .

In 1923 Kolchizki returned to Moscow. He became a member of the priests college of the Epiphany Church in Jelochowo and remained so until the end of his life. In 1924 Patriarch Tikhon appointed him head of the Epiphany Church in Jelochowo . This church became the Patriarchal Cathedral of Deputy Patriarch Sergius I in 1938 .

During the German-Soviet War Kolchizki was evacuated with the Patriarchate from 1941–1943 in Ulyanovsk . From 1942 he signed as managing director of the Moscow Patriarchate . When the Holy Synod was formed in 1943, he became a permanent member of the Moscow Patriarchate as executive director . On February 25, 1945 he was promoted to protopresbyter (archpriest). On April 10, 1945 he was received by Stalin together with Patriarch Alexius I and Metropolitan Nikolai von Krutitsy .

In 1956 Kolchizki was also president of the school committee at the Holy Synod. In 1960 he was released from his managerial duties due to illness. When he died in 1961, Patriarch Alexius I presided over the exequies . He was buried in the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad . He left his wife, the patriarch's secretary Lidija Kolchizkaja (1925-2001), two sons and a daughter. The eldest son Galix became a film actor, as did his son Nikolai, while the younger son Sergei became a subdeacon of Patriarch Alexius I.

literature

• New martyrs and confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century: Kolchizki Nikolai Fjodorowitsch (Russian, accessed January 4, 2016).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I. Jefimow: 40 years of shepherd service  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate No. 12, December 1954, pp. 21-22 (Russian, accessed January 4, 2016).  
2. ↑ Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate No. 2, 1961, pp. 24–28 (Russian)