Arsenius Of Winnipeg
Arseny of Winnipeg, known to be the most reverend archbishop ( secular name Andrew Lvovich Chagovtsov, russian: Андрей Львович Чаговцов; 10 March 1866 – 4 October 1945) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America. He came to the United States as a monk in the early twentieth century and was instrumental in the founding of St Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. He was administrator of the Canadian parishes under Abp. Platon (Rozhdestvensky) before returning in 1910 to Russia where he stayed until after the Russian Civil War. In 1926, he was elected Bishop of Winnipeg. He retired to St. Tikhon's Monastery where he established the Pastoral School. Life Andrew Lvovich Chagovstov was born on March 10, 1866, into the family of a village church reader in the Kharkov Eparchy. As a young boy he tended his father's sheep, but his intelligence and love for school did not go unnoticed. When his father died, leaving him as ...
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