Background
Gleb Verhovskiy was born into a noble family in Saint St. Petersburg.
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He studied at the Academy of Arts in his hometown and was a member of the artistic association "World of Art".
Career
In 1915 in Bulgaria was ordained a priest by Bulgarian bishop Michael Mirow in the Eastern Rite. Verhovskiy served among Russian Uniates in Saint St. Petersburg and attended the First Council of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, which took place in Saint St. Petersburg in 1917 and in which Andrew Sheptytsky appointed Leonid Fyodorov Exarch of the Russian Greek Catholic Church. From 1918 to 1921 lived in Lviv and Kiev.
In Kiev participated in the Society of Saint Leo the Great.
In 1922 he traveled to Istanbul, where he preached among Russian Catholics. However, in February 1923 he left Istanbul because of disagreements with the Jesuits caused by different views on methods of promoting the Catholic faith among the Russian people.
Then he was appointed rector of the Russian Catholic parish in Prague. In 1925 Gleb Verkhovsky ministered among Ukrainian immigrants in the United States.
He died in Chicago on April 11, 1935.
Views
In 1924 took part in the fourth Velegradskie Congress, which defended his views on privacy traditions and ways of the Eastern Churches of romanization and the inadmissibility of proselytism among the Russian emigres.
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Religion
Catholicism Russian Greek Catholic Church