Alexander Evreinov

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Alexander Evreinov
Archbishop
Native name
Александр Николаевич Евреинов
Church
Russian Catholic

Alexander Nikolaevich Evreinov (8 March 1877 – 20 August 1959) was a

priesthood. Despite being consecrated as a bishop in 1936, Evreinov did not have any jurisdiction among Russian Catholics neither in the Soviet Union nor in the Russian diaspora
. Evreinov was a member of the Russian Apostolate.

Biography

He was born into the Russian nobility in Saint Petersburg. His father, Nicholas Evreinov was a social and political activist, and was also a landowner. Alexander Evreinov worked as a diplomat for the Russian Foreign Office, and was secretary of the Russian embassy in Constantinople from 1900 to 1906, and then in Rome from 1906 to 1909.

Conversion to Catholicism

In 1905, he converted to

Catholicism in Constantinople. In 1909, he retired and went to study at the seminary in 1913 in the Greek Collegium of Saint Athanasius in Rome. Evreinov ordained a priest in 1916, and in 1921 he began to work in the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris
.

Pastor in Paris and the Russian emigration

In 1925, Father Alexander Evreinov served firstly in Paris the Catholic liturgy according to the Russian liturgical tradition, in the crypt of the Church of Mary Magdalene, which marked the beginning of a Russian Catholic parish dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

Following her own conversion,

Latin Rite borrowings commonly added in Galicia and, "one might have thought oneself at an Orthodox service, except that prayers were offered for the Pope and our hierarchical head, the Archbishop of Paris." Iswolsky added that the chapel, although humble, "was decorated in the best of taste and according to the strictest Russian religious style; the iconostasis was the work of a Russian painter well-versed in ancient Eastern iconography. The central panel was a faithful copy of Rubleff's Trinity."[1]

In this same community, consisting of representatives of the Russian emigration were also associated priests Fr.

Dmitriy Kuz'min-Karavaev. Among the congregation were famous people: the writer Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky, Baron Mikhail Taube
, director D. Aristov, Colonel Michael A. Yudin-Belsky, Zoya Kamlyuhina and others.

In 1927, the parish acquired its own premises. Consecrator of the church was Bishop

Catholic Institute of Paris George Tsebrikovym, assisted in the service of the liturgy by Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
.

In 1934, the parish church in Paris was equipped with a new building at 39 Francoise Gerard Street, where it is to this day. After Evreinov, the rector of the church was a Frenchman, Dominican Christopher Dumont.

Bishop

On 6 December 1936 Evreinov became a bishop with the title Pariiskii and he would continue to work in responsible positions in the Vatican. On the occasion of celebrations in 1938 of the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia for the first time in

Clement Sheptytsky, the future Second Russian Exarch of the Catholics of the Byzantine rite. There were other Catholic priests present, as Cyril King and Victor Novikov, the future Russian Deputy Exarch, then Catholic Exarch of Siberia and the secret bishop. Evreinov ordained many in the Russian apostolate, such as: Andrei Katkov, Cyril Kozina, Henri Petitjean, Andrew Sterpin, Theodore Romzha
and others.

During World War II, Evreinov headed the Pontifical Committee for Aid to Prisoners of War, then from 1947 to 1959, he led the department of the foreign press at the State Secretariat of the Vatican. In Rome, Evreinov also continued his Catholic evangelism within the Russian diaspora, as the first and second wave, during which he helped the writer Boris Nikolaevich Shiryaev, poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, Leonid Brailovsky, and his wife Rimma.

On 5 June 1952 the archbishop consecrated a new altar, donated by Slovak Catholics of the United States of America and Canada, in the Roman Basilica of Saint Clement. Archbishop Evreinov lived in

Nilus of Rossano in Grottaferrata
.

Bibliography

  • Vladimir Kolupaev. Mental and socio-cultural picture of the life of Russian Catholics in Paris in the XX century / / Yearbook of historical and anthropological research. Moscow: Publishing House "Economy-Inform", 2010. pp. 64 – 73.
  • Vladimir Kolupaev. Writer Boris Shiryaev / / Library, No. 12 (174), 2012.

References

  1. ^ Helen Iswolsky (1942), Light Before Dusk: A Russian Catholic in France, 1923-1941, pages 57-59.

External links

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