Mitrofan Vasilievich Srebryansky

Background

Sergiy (Mitrofan Vasilievich Srebryansky) was born on August, 1, 1870, in village Tresvyatskoye in Voronezh Oblast, Russian Federation.

Education

Mitrofan Vasilievich graduated from Voronezh Theological Divinity School in 1892 and studied at Warsaw Veterinary Institute from 1892 to 1893.

Career

Sergiy was the deacon of the Stefanovskaya church of the settlement of Lizinovka of Ostrogozhsky District in Voronezh Oblast from 1893 to 1894. He was the priest of the 47th Dragoon Tatar Regiment from 1894 to 1895, the 51st Dragoon Chernigov Regiment from 1897 to 1905. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War with the latter.

Sergiy was the author of book "The Diary of a Priest" (published in Saint Petersburg in 1906 and in Moscow in1996). Sergiy became an archpriest in 1906. He was the author of the project of Martha-Mariinsky Convent in Moscow.

From 1908 to 1923, Sergiy was the rector of the church of Martha-Mariinsky Convent in Moscow that was constructed at the initiative of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. He became a monk in 1919. In 1923 during the campaign of seizure church property, he was arrested and sent to Tobolsk. He lived in village Vladychnya in Tver Oblast and served at a local church from 1925. Then Sergiy was exiled for the second time to the Northern Territory from where he returned to Vladychnya in 1933.

Achievements

• Sergiy became known as an ascetic and theological mentor. He comforted and healed the afflicted especially during the years of the Second World War.