Background
Yakov Nikolaevich Ktitarev was born on October 22, 1878 in Boguchar, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Yakov Nikolaevich Ktitarev was born on October 22, 1878 in Boguchar, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Yakov Nikolaevich graduated from the Voronezh Theological School, St. Petersburg Theological Seminary (1900), St. Petersburg Theological Academy (1904).
Yakov Nikolaevich was a Priest (1904). He was a teacher of religion of the female gymnasium in Batumi, where he also taught Russian and Russian history (1904-1905). At the same time, he was a priest of the local marine hospital. Since 1905, Yakov Nikolaevich was a teacher of religion and rector of church schools in Gorki, Mogilev province. Also he was a senior priest of the St. Nicholas Church in Special Presence on the analysis and care of the poor (St. Petersburg, since 1912). Then he was a senior priest of the Alexander Nevsky Church and the teacher of religion of the Alexander Institute (1914-1917). In 1915, Yakov Nikolaevich became an Archpriest.
In the pre-revolutionary years he published several works, including "Questions of religion and morality in Russian literature" (St. Petersburg, 1914). He was the one of the authors of the anthology for primary schools and parochial schools "Russian word" (St. Petersburg, 1914). During the Civil War, he moved to the location of the Volunteer Army.
In 1920, Yakov Nikolaevich was a Head of the General Department of the Supreme Church Administration in the South of Russia. He was a priest in Constantinople in emigration, then a catechist at a Russian gymnasium in Moravskaya Trzebová (Czechoslovakia), where he was actively involved in the cultural life of a Russian colony. Yakov Nikolaevich was a churchman in temples in Bratislava, Prague (1922-1927). He was a senior priest of the Sergiev church in Colombel (France; from 1927), then he was a laity in Boulogne-Billancourt (near Paris; from 1928), where he founded the "sisterhood" (female community for charity work), Yakov Nikolaevich opened the Nikolsky church in September 1930 and created a laity school. He was the 2nd priest of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris (1936-1942, February - April 1946). Also he was homiletics teacher at the St. Sergius Theological Institute (1942-1944).
Yakov Nikolaevich published a number of books and brochures in emigration, including the "Orthodox Christian Companion: Prayer Books with Explanation", "Conversations on Sundays and Public Holidays of the Church Year" in two parts.
