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Григорий Елисеевич Баранников (born March 11, 1895 in Azov, September 23, 1960 in Casablanca) - Russian emigre Orthodox cleric, field chaplain in the Russian Protectorate Corps during the Second World War, publicist.

He graduated from the seminary and became a teacher at the parish church. After the outbreak of World War I he was mobilized to the Russian army. In 1918 he joined the newly formed White Army Gen. Anthony I. Denikin. In November 1920, with the remaining troops, he was evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli. He emigrated to Bulgaria. He sang in the choir of the Kozaków dońskich S. A. Żarów. In 1923 he was ordained as an Orthodox priest. He served in the Transcarpathian Rus. After a few years the Czechoslovak authorities expelled him beyond the borders of the state. As a result, he arrived in Yugoslavia where he served in one of the parishes in Serbia. After the German occupation of Poland in April 1941, he joined the newly formed Russian Protective Corps. He was in charge of the field chaplain. At the end of the war he stayed in the Kellerberg camp, where he was deputy parish priest of the local Orthodox church. In 1948 he went to Morocco. In 1951 he became the parish priest of the Orthodox Church of Rabat of the Resurrection. From 1959 he served as deputy parish priest, then parish priest of the Church of the Assumption in Casablanca. At the same time he taught Russian, religion and singing. He cooperated with the local branch of the National Organization of Russian Interrogators (NORR), participating in summer camps for Russian youth. He wrote articles for "Russkaja żyzń", which appeared in San Francisco.

Biography of Grigory J. Barannikov (Russia) Bibliography

Lew A. Mnuchin, Marie Avril, Russian Abroad in France, 1919-2000, 2008

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