Sergiy Verigin (24 March 1868 in

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– 1938) was a

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. Initially ordained an Orthodox clergyman, in 1907 Verigin changed his religious position united himself to Catholic faith. From 1910 to 1929 was a priest who celebrated

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in a Russian Catholic church in

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and participated as a member of Pro Russia movement, however maintaining pessimistic views in relation to Russian Orthodoxy union with

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. Verigin died in 1938."THE HISTORICAL DESTINY OF THE RUSSIAN CATHOLIC TRADITION OF THE BYZANTINE RITE".

Biography

Sergiy Verigin was born in

in a family of Russian nobles, his father was then working in the Russian embassy. In 1888 graduated from high school in

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, after which he entered the

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, where he studied with Father Nicholas Tolstoy, who took the union with

in 1894. In 1889 Verigin dedicated to the priesthood in the Penza and received a gold cross as a sign of special favor and the location of the emperor. By tradition of the

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was forced to marry her, but married life was painful about. Sergius, and at the first opportunity, distanced himself from his wife and children and saw them only occasionally. In 1905 sent as a priest in

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and served in Pau and

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until mid 1907. On 28 August 1907 Father Verigin joined to the

and Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro specifically addressed him the issue of accession. Sergiy Verigin repeatedly crossed the border of the

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. There he met with Metropolitan

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that on 8 August 1910 attributed it to his diocese as a missionary with the right to conduct services in the

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. From 1910 until the demolition of the church in 1932 he served the Divine Liturgy in the

of Saint Lawrence in

and on 10 October 1932 Verigin was appointed rector of the new church of Saint Anthony in

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. He died in 1938 as a result of a short illness. His ashes were buried in the crypt of the grave at Greek College.

References

External links

* http://www.catholic.ru/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=2053 * http://starosti.ru/article.php?id=4067 * http://www.hierarchy.religare.ru/h-uniate-rgkcprihod.html * http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/av/v_159.htm * http://vselenstvo.narod.ru/library/herbigny.htm#prim22 * https://web.archive.org/web/20130126004158/http://vselenstvo.narod.ru/library/lexicon.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Verigin, Sergiy 1868 births 1938 deaths Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Russian Eastern Catholics Clergy from Ljubljana