Metropolitan Arsenius (russian: Митрополит Арсений, secular name Avksenty Georgievich Stadnitsky; 3 February 1862, Komarovo,

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– 10 February 1936,

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) was a Soviet

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who helped lead the church in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods. He was a member of the

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from 1906 and a candidate for Patriarch of All Rus' in 1917. He was Bishop of

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from 1903 to 1910, Archbishop of

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from 1910 to 1917, when that office was elevated to a metropolitanate. He continued as Metropolitan of Novgorod until 1933, when he was named Metropolitan of

and

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(he was exiled to Central Asia by the Soviet authorities at that time). He died in Tashkent on 10 February 1936."Arsenii" in ''Pravoslavnaya Entsiklopediya'' (Orthodox Encyclopedia) online at http://www.pravenc.ru/text/76250.html

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