Background
Petr Fedorovich Polyansky was born on June 28, 1862 in the village of Storozhevoe, Korotoyak county, Russian Empire (nowadays Russian Federation) in a family of a cleric.
Petr Fedorovich Polyansky was born on June 28, 1862 in the village of Storozhevoe, Korotoyak county, Russian Empire (nowadays Russian Federation) in a family of a cleric.
He graduated from the Kostroma Theological School, Voronezh Theological Seminary (1885), the Moscow Theological Academy (1892).
Assistant Dean of Students in the Moscow Theological Academy (1892-1896), keeper of the Ecclesiastical School in Zhirovitsy (1896-1906). Member of the Education Committee of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, inspector of theological schools (1906-1918). Participant of the of the All-Russian Council of 1917-1918. In 1920 he was tonsured a monk by Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky). Bishop Podolsky, Vicar of the Moscow Diocese (1920-1921), one of the closest assistants of Patriarch Tikhon. 1921-1923 spent in exile in Veliky Ustyug. Archbishop (from 1923), Metropolitan Krutitsky (from 1924). Since April 1925, the locum tenens of the patriarchal throne.
He led an intensive struggle against the renovationists, sought the legalization of the Russian Orthodox Church. Since December 1925 he was in exile and imprisonment. Shot in prison.
Quotations: During the interrogation on December 18, 1925, he declared that the church could not approve the revolution: "The social revolution is based on blood and fratricide, which the Church cannot recognize. Only war can still be blessed by the Church, since it protects the fatherland from foreigners and the Orthodox faith."
Member of the Education Committee of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
