George (Bryanchaninov),

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(8 June 1919 – 5 April 2018) was a Russian priest in the

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, an Archimandrite and a member of the Russian apostolate in the Diaspora.

Biography

George Bryanchaninov (Brianchaninov) was born on 18 June 1919 in Blagoveshchensk,

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. In his Orthodox baptism he was named Gleb. Together with his parents he emigrated to China, where in 1937 he graduated with honors at High School of Saint Nicholas in

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. Soon after, he joined the

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and on 4 December 1938 entered the Marian Order, taking the monastic name George. From May 1939 he received religious education in

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, hosted a program on Vatican Radio. In 1944 he was ordained a priest of the Russian Catholic Church by Bishop

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. He obtained a doctoral degree (1947, thesis "Studies of Saint John Chrysostom Church of obedience to authority"). On behalf of General Order Marian Bishop Peter Buchis he was engaged by Russian children in refugee camps in

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. Until 1950 he worked in the Russian Committee for Refugees in the Vatican, then in 1956 he went to

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. In 1957 he moved to

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to help

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, his classmate at the Lyceum, and brother in the Order. With him, he co-founded the Missionary Centre for Eastern-rite Catholics in

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, nourished Catholics after moving to

from

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, as Russian immigrants, including once in 1958, when Fr. Andrew (rink) was recalled to

. Father Bryanchaninov received Australian citizenship. In the beginning of 1990 he travelled several times to

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. With the support of the Archbishop of Melbourne he purchased a large house in Stevenson St, Kew where he eloquently decorated the front room with ikons and eastern rite traditional design. This house served as the Centre for Eastern Rite Russian Catholics until the end of 2007, when his mobility declined and he moved to the Saint Joseph Nursing Home for Priests in Northcote (suburb of

). Archimandrite George (Bryanchaninov) was nephew of the bishop and theologian

Ignatius Bryanchaninov Saint Ignatius (secular name Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, russian: link=no, Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, ; 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church. He stands out as one of ...

. He died in

, Victoria,

on 5 April 2018 at the age of 98 and was buried at Fawkner Memorial Park together with his mother who was interred in 1971.Fr George Brianchaninov Obituary
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References

* Vladimir Kolupaev. Catholic mission in China: the Byzantine rite Catholic Diocese in 1928-1949 gg. / / Religious figure and writer RUSSIAN FOREIGN * Vladimir Kolupaev. Byzantine Rite Catholic communities, and the Russian diaspora

External links

* http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/av/b_147.htm * http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/texts/frrostislav312.htm

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