Background
NIKANDR, (secular was born in 1909.
NIKANDR, (secular was born in 1909.
Took monastic vows, then appointed archimandrite. Until 1949 secretary to Bishop of Novosibirsk and vicar of Novosibirsk Eparchy. From 1949 Bishop of Biysk.
1949 signed congratulatory address to Stalin on the occasion of his 70th birthday on behalf of the clergy and parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church. 1952 appointed Bishof of Omsk and Tyumen’.