Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
Bishop Antony of Cheboksary. 1898

Metropolitan Antony of Kiev (Russian: Митрополит Антоний secular name Aleksey Pavlovich Khrapovitsky, Russian: Алексей Павлович Храповицкий; 17 March 1863 – 10 August 1936) was a Russian Orthodox metropolitan bishop, founder of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Biography

He was born Aleksey Pavlovich Khrapovitsky in Vatagino (near Novgorod) to a family with a noble background. and studied theology at Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. In 1885 he became a monk and took the name Antony in honor of St. Antony the Roman of Novgorod. He taught briefly at the Academy where he had studied, and then at academies in Moscow and Kazan. In 1897 he became vicar-bishop of Kazan, in 1900 bishop of Ufa, and in 1902 bishop of Volhynia and Zhitomir. In this position he suppressed the Eastern Catholics of Ukraine as well as nationalism within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

In 1912 he was elected to the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. Two years later he became Archbishop of Kharkiv, and in 1918 became metropolitan of Kiev.

When the Bolshevik Revolution came he fled for Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia, and in 1920 became leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in exile.

He was famous as a polemicist who argued against papal supremacy.

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