Ambrosius (in this world ''Vasiliy Gudko'', in Russian ''Василий Гудко'') (December 28, 1867 – August 9, 1918)

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Sarapul Sarapul ( Udmurt and russian: Сара́пул) is a city and a river port in the Udmurt Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kama River, southeast of Izhevsk, the capital of the republic. Population: History Sarapul is one of t ...

and Yelabug. He was canonized as a Russian Saint by the

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in 2000.

Education

He graduated the Kholm Ecclesiastical

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and the

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Ecclesiastical Academy in 1893 with a

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Monk, Missionary, Teacher

*1891 invested into

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life. *May 30, 1893,

ordain Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform var ...

ed a

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. *1893 headmaster of the catechist school in Altay. *1897 head of the Korean Ecclesiastical Mission in position of

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. *1899 superintendent of the Donskoy Ecclesiastical School in

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. *1901 rector of the Volynskaya Ecclesiastical Seminary.

Vicarious bishop

* On April 30, 1904, consecrated Krementsky

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of the Volyn

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. * On February 27, 1909, Baltsky Bishop, Vicar of the Podolsky Diocese. * On February 14, 1914, Sarapul Bishop, Vicar of the Vyatsky Diocese. * On October 5, 1916, Sarapul and Elabug Bishop, Vicar of the Vyatsky Diocese. (In this period, the Synod considered the question of dividing the Sarapul Vicariate into an independent Diocese, but that was not decided before the

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.) At the end of 1916 there began a conflict between some of Sarapul's social democrats and Bishop Ambrosius, as a result of which the bishop excluded Sarapul's liberal figures Mikhel (trustee of the Nikolaevsky Church Parish school) and Polyakov from Holy Communion. He was considered a supporter of the active preaching of

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among the

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in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

population. He came out with sermons against alcohol; with his blessing, district brotherhoods for the fight against drunkenness were established in Sarapul and Elabug.

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Biography (in Russian)
1867 births 1918 deaths Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church 20th-century Christian saints {{saint-stub