Nikolai Alekseev (Catholic priest)
Archimandrite Nikolai Alekseev (January 21, 1869 – April 23, 1952) was a Russian Greek-Catholic priest.
Biography
Alekseev was born on January 21, 1869, in Vyborg, Finland, into the family of a colonel. He studied at the gymnasium and the Swedish lyceum in Helsinki. In 1897 he was tonsured a monk and ordained a deacon in the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. In 1899 he was sent as a representative of the Russian Orthodox mission in Seoul and was ordained to the priesthood in 1901.
From 1904 to 1906 he was forced to take a break from his work at the mission because of the outbreak of
There, Alekseev expressed a desire to join the
In Argentina, he lived in the monastery of Saint Michael (Spanish: San Miguel) and served in the Russian parish of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Buenos Aires. In 1951 he began to help the priest George Kovalenko. Alekseev died in Buenos Aires on April 23, 1952, at the age of 82 years.
References
- Vladimir Kolupaev, Archimandrite Nikolai Alekseev - experience life as a mission: Russia, Korea, China, Argentina / / Actual problems of the history and culture of orthodoxy. Vladivostok : Far Eastern Ed.-in. Univ., 2010. pp. 90–94.
- George Kovalenko. fiftieth anniversary priesthood Father Archimandrite Nikolai Alekseev / / For the truth! (Newspaper). Buenos Aires . 21/07/1951.
- Konstantin Nikolaev Eastern Rite. Paris : YMCA, 1950. with. 213.
- Chronicle church life / / Russian thought. Paris. 1947, № 6. with. 5.
External links
- Вселенство - новости Кафолического Православия (in Russian)
- ProCatholic.ru - Русские католики. Архимандрит Николай Алексеев (in Russian)
- Архимандрит Николай Алексеев (Католическая Церковь) (in Russian)
- Игумен Ростислав (Колупаев). Католические общины византийского обряда и русская диаспора (in Russian)