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On August 13/26, 1910 (according to another source, in 1909), Vladyka was
appointed Bishop of Nizhni-Novgorod and Arzamas. On May 6, 1916 he was
raised to the rank of archbishop. The inhabitants of Nizhni came to love him,
and he served there until the revolution.
Already under the Provisional Government he was imprisoned in Nizhni.
In 1917-18 he was a delegate to the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox
Church in Moscow, and never returned to Nizhni. For the Bolsheviks again
imprisoned him for his ardent monarchism. On March 22, 1918 he was retired
from his see at his own request and was appointed administrator, with the
rights of superior, of the Resurrection monastery at New Jerusalem in
Moscow diocese.
In the autumn he went to visit his son and his family in the Crimea. He
was often invited from there to serve in the churches of Sebastopol. Once,
when all the inhabitants of the house had gone out and he was alone, some
unknown people who were supposedly robbers, but were in fact sent by the
local Bolsheviks, appeared. According to the witness of a Crimean priest, he
was martyred by being hanged with his head down on the royal doors of the
Sebastopol cathedral.
(Sources: Akty Svyatejshego Tikhona, Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseya
Rossii, Moscow: St. Tikhon's Theological Institute, 1994, P. 863-64, 974;
Protopresbyter Michael Polsky, Noviye Mucheniki Rossijskiye, 1949-57, vol. I,
pp. 77-81, vol. II, p. 277; Hieromonk Damascene (Orlovsky), Mucheniki,
ispovedniki i podvizhniki blagochestiya Rossijskoj Tserkvi XX stoletii, Tver:
Bulat, 1992, pp. 168-170; Russkiye Pravoslavnye Ierarkhi, Paris: YMCA Press,
1986, p. 38; Za Khrista Postradavshiye, Moscow: St. Tikhon’s Theological
Institute, 1997, pp. 502-503;
http://www.pstbi.ru/bin/code.exe/frames/m/ind_oem.html?/ans)
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