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Nicodemius | |
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Metropolis of Kiev and Galicia Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich | |
![]() Nicodemius in 1908 | |
Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
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Installed | 7 February 1918 |
Predecessor | Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) |
Successor | Antony (Khrapovitsky) |
Personal details | |
Born | Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov 29 November 1868 Pogreshino, Russian Empire (now Kostroma Oblast, Russia) |
Died | 21 August 1938 69) Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | (aged
Nicodemius (Russian : Никодим; born Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кротков); 29 November [ O.S. 17 November] 1868 – 21 August 1938) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, later the Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich.
He christmated Pavlo Skoropadskyi as Hetman of Ukraine on 29 April 1918 in the Saint Sophia Cathedral. During the Revolutionary period in Ukraine 1917-1920 he served as a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia as a vicar to the murdered by Bolsheviks Metropolitan Vladimir. In 2000 he was recognized as a hieromartyr by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov was born in a family of a Russian priest from the Kostroma Eparchy. In 1889 he graduated from the Kostroma Theological Seminary, after which Krotkov was appointed as a teacher to a parish school. In 1896 he enrolled into the Kiev Theological Academy and on 13 August 1899 Krotkov was tonsured as a monk. In 1900 Krotkov finished the academy with a degree of a Candidate in Theology. In 1905 he was a rector of the Pskov Theological Seminary.
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