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4. HIEROMARTYR HERMAN, BISHOP OF VOLSK
Bishop Herman, in the world Nicholas Vasilyevich Kosolapov, was born in
1882 in Saratov province. In about 1902 he entered the St. Petersburg
Theological Academy. In 1905 he was tonsured and ordained to the diaconate.
In 1906 he was ordained to the priesthood, graduated from the Academy with
the degree of candidate of theology and was appointed assistant inspector of
the Sarapul theological school. In 1907 he became assistant inspector in the
Kamyshinsky theological school. On March 13, 1908 he became inspector of
the Petrovsky theological school. On July 28, 1911 he became inspector of the
Oboyan theological school in the rank of archimandrite. On February 1, 1913
he became inspector of the Kursk theological school. On April 30, 1916 he
became rector of the Vladimir theological seminary. On February 11
(according to another source, January 17), 1918 he was consecrated Bishop of
Volsk (according to other sources, Kamyshin), a vicariate of the Saratov
diocese. According to one source, he was killed in August, 1918 in Saratov as
a hostage after the attempt on the life of Lenin. According to other sources,
however, he was condemned to 15 years imprisonment by the Saratov
revolutionary tribunal on October 6, 1918, was released on amnesty, was
arrested and imprisoned again by May, 1919, and was shot on September 27
(or October 19), 1919.
(Sources: M.E. Gubonin, Akty Svyateishago Patriarkha Tikhona, Moscow: St.
Tikhon's Theological Institute, 1994, p. 969; Protopresbyter Michael Polsky,
Noviye Mucheniki Rossijskiye, Jordanville, 1949-57, part 1, p. 179, part 2, p.
280; Russkiye Pravoslavnye Ierarkhi, Paris: YMCA Press, 1986, p. 27; Vladimir
Rusak, Pir Satany, London, Canada: "Zarya", 1991, p. 23; Za Khrista
Postradavshiye, Moscow: St. Tikhon’s Theological Institute, 1997, p. 311)
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