Archbishop Varlaam (other)
*Victor Solowij (1891–1966), archbishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church * (1885–1946), archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church *Barlaam (Shyshatsky) Monk Barlaam (russian: Монах Варлаам; secular name Gregory Stepanovich Shyshatsky, 12 March 1750, village Krasilovka, Kozeletskyy uezd, Chernigov province - 23 July 1820, Novgorod-Seversky) was a defrocked Archbishop of Mogilev and Vit ...

Victor Solowij
Victor Sylvestrovych Solowij (29 November 1891 – 31 January 1966), later known as Archbishop Varlaam, was an archbishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church known for his public-political and church activism. He was born in the village of Kyriivka, in the Sosnycia District of Chernihiv Province, Ukraine. Early life He attended Novhorod-Siversky religious school and the Chernihiv Seminary before obtaining a law degree from Warsaw University in 1914. From 1914 to 1915 he worked as a court applicant in Moscow. He was then drafted and served as an artillery officer in the Russian Czarist Army. In 1917 he became the leader-chairman of the Ukrainian Military Community in Moscow and a local court judge in Chernihiv, Ukraine. In 1918 during the period of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), Solowij was a secretary of the Highest Court of independent Ukraine, later in 1919 in the war of independence he served as captain of an artillery corps of Sichovi Strilci and a comma ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]