Nikolay Ivanovich Polikarpov

April 1, 1871 (age 63)

Istobnoye village, Voronezh region, Russian Federation

Nikolay Ivanovich was a lecturer of the Voronezh Theological School from 1892 to 1895, overseer of the Voronezh Theological Seminary from 1895 to 1915. At the same time he was a secretary of the diocesan school council. In 1915, after the death of his son at the front, he entered the Kiev Theological Academy. In March 1922 in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra bishop Mitrofan became a monk. He worked as a researcher of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1921-1923. In late 1923 - early 1924, Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin) ordained Nikolay Polikarpov the rank of bishop of the Voronezh diocese as bishop of Buturlinovsky. Shortly after arriving in Voronezh in 1924, he was arrested and a year later in 1925 was exiled for three years to the Orenburg province. Nikolay Ivanovich was engaged in the problems of church and secular history of the Voronezh region of the XVII-XIX centuries. Collaborated in the newspaper "Don", "Voronezh Telegraph" and with the "Voronezh diocesan statements" from 1892. He compiled a historical and statistical description of the village of Golyshevka in Korotoyak district (Voronezh Diocesan Gazette, 1892-1893), explored the process of settling the same county in the 17th century, and prepared essays on the history of the Trinity of Elets, Alekseevsky Akatov and Mitrofanovsky monasteries. He revealed the background of the provincial museum (from the 1830s). From the beginning of the 20th century Nikolay Ivanovich was a member of the Voronezh Church Historical and Archeological Committee and the Voronezh Scientific Archival Commission. In the Proceedings of the Voronezh Academic Archival Commission, he placed an article on the history of the provincial printing house, together with M.V. Apollosov published "Ancient Acts" (1902). More than 25 materials were placed in the "Voronezh antiquity", including articles on the saints Mitrofan, Tikhon Zadonsky, Anthony (Smirnitsky), Bishop Leo (Yurlov). He studied in detail the relationship between St Mitrofan and Tsar Peter I.

Nikolay Ivanovich Polikarpov

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also known as Mitrofan

bishop priest

Background

Nikolai Ivanovich Polikarpov know as Bishop Mitrofan was born on April 1 (13), 1871 in the village of Istobnoye, Voronezh Province (now Istobnoye village, Voronezh region, Russian Federation).

Education

Nikolay Ivanovich graduated from the Voronezh Theological School in 1885 and the Voronezh Theological Seminary in 1891.

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Nikolay Ivanovich was a lecturer of the Voronezh Theological School from 1892 to 1895, overseer of the Voronezh Theological Seminary from 1895 to 1915. At the same time he was a secretary of the diocesan school council.

In 1915, after the death of his son at the front, he entered the Kiev Theological Academy. In March 1922 in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra bishop Mitrofan became a monk.

He worked as a researcher of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1921-1923. In late 1923 - early 1924, Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin) ordained Nikolay Polikarpov the rank of bishop of the Voronezh diocese as bishop of Buturlinovsky. Shortly after arriving in Voronezh in 1924, he was arrested and a year later in 1925 was exiled for three years to the Orenburg province.

Nikolay Ivanovich was engaged in the problems of church and secular history of the Voronezh region of the XVII-XIX centuries. Collaborated in the newspaper "Don", "Voronezh Telegraph" and with the "Voronezh diocesan statements" from 1892. He compiled a historical and statistical description of the village of Golyshevka in Korotoyak district (Voronezh Diocesan Gazette, 1892-1893), explored the process of settling the same county in the 17th century, and prepared essays on the history of the Trinity of Elets, Alekseevsky Akatov and Mitrofanovsky monasteries. He revealed the background of the provincial museum (from the 1830s).

From the beginning of the 20th century Nikolay Ivanovich was a member of the Voronezh Church Historical and Archeological Committee and the Voronezh Scientific Archival Commission. In the Proceedings of the Voronezh Academic Archival Commission, he placed an article on the history of the provincial printing house, together with M.V. Apollosov published "Ancient Acts" (1902). More than 25 materials were placed in the "Voronezh antiquity", including articles on the saints Mitrofan, Tikhon Zadonsky, Anthony (Smirnitsky), Bishop Leo (Yurlov). He studied in detail the relationship between St Mitrofan and Tsar Peter I.

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1891

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1892 - 1895

1895 - 1915

1921 - 1923