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Born in Saint St. Petersburg to diplomat Ivan Bock and Natalia Kossovich, Bock graduated Petrischule German school in 1899 and thereafter entered the law faculty of Saint St. Petersburg University.
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Nicholas Bock
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In 1903, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1912 was appointed secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission to the Vatican. From 1916 to 1917, he acted as chargé d"affaires of the mission. After the October Revolution, he remained in Italy as chairman of the Committee for Assistance to Russian refugees.
In 1943, Bock moved to the city of Kobe.
In 1948, at the age of 67 years, he was ordained as a priest. Soon, he moved to the United States, living in California, where there were many Russian Catholics who had fled Harbin after Communists had come to power in China.
In San Francisco, Bock created the Byzantine Catholic parish of Our Lady of Fatima. He was later transferred to the Russian center at Fordham University in New New York
In 1950, he took part in the Congress of the Russian Catholic clergy in Rome, where he was deputy chairman of the Archbishop Alexander Evreinov.
Bock died on February 27, 1962 in New New York
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Catholic