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From Holy Hieromartyr Seraphim of St. Petersburg

St. Seraphim (Chichagov) was the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Leningrad and Gdov in the Church of Russia between 1928 and 1933. Influenced by Fr. John of Kronstadt, he became a monk after serving in the Russian army. He was executed by the Bolsheviks during the purges in 1937. He is commemorated on December 11.

on faith in christian life on battling pride

FROM Metropolitan
ANTHONY Bloom (1914-2003)

Anthony Bloom was the Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain and Ireland. He was tonsured a monastic in 1943, appointed vicar of the Russian parish in London in 1950, consecrated as Bishop in 1957 and Archbishop in 1962, where he began the Diocese of Sourozh. In 1963 he was appointed Exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe, and in 1966 was raised to the rank of Metropolitan.

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