Background
Bagin was born in Moscow in 1956.
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Dmitry Bagin
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He graduated from the Gnesin School of Music. Bagin graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and the Moscow Theological Academy, receiving the title "Candidate of Theology".
Career
In 1977, he was tonsured a monk with the name Martyrios, and was ordained as a deacon. In 1986 he was ordained priest, serving in the Moscow diocese. Since 1989, Bagin was head of the Moscow church of Nativity in Kapotnya, and from 1991, of the Church of All Saints in Kulishki.
In September 1998, he was removed from service and temporarily banned from serving as an Orthodox priest.
In 2010, he was succeeded in that post by Slovak Catholic priest Michal Leshchishin, and was appointed rector of the Russian Greek Catholic Church in Munich. Bagin is also working in Catholic education and religious programs in radio stations.
