Background
Vladimir Dluzsky was born in a Russian noble family of orthodox religion.
Vladimir Dluzsky was born in a Russian noble family of orthodox religion.
At the end of the Cadet Corps (Russia) course he entered in the Saint St. Petersburg State University. After that he moved to Greece and after to Czechoslovakia, graduating at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. In 1929 he was ordained a deacon, a priest in 1930, later elevated to the rank of archpriest.
From 1931 he headed the Russian Catholic mission in Berlin, succeeding priest Dmitriy Kuz"minimum-Karavaev.
Dluzsky founded the Society of Saint Nicholas, paid attention to the church library. Having established close contacts with the prior Pavel Grechiskin, the Russian Catholic priest in Vienna, he became co-editor and co-editor of the magazine " Our parish (newsletter).
After World World War II he continued service in West Berlin, among his parishioners left some widows of German citizens who were married back in 1914–1918. Learn about pastoral work from a 1957: "Our faithful - all Galicians left without a pastor, and only a very small number of Russian Poles non negatively to the Byzantine rite".
In West Germany at the time was working Father Matthew Dietz, that have arrived in West Berlin to help Father Dluzsky.
Since 1959 Dluzsky lived at Saint Joseph"s Hospital in West Berlin. He died in 1967.
" During the coming to power of the National Socialism, his patriotism caused concern and in 1943 Dluzsky was arrested by the Gestapo.