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Nikolai Petrovich Awtonomov, Russian Николай Петрович Автономов (born April 6, 1894 in Sergievyevskaya State, in the District of the Military Forces, died August 13, 1979 in St. Petersburg, Florida) - Russian Orthodox clergyman, collaborating self-appointed archbishop , then the Bishop of the Cossack Military Headquarters at the end of World War II, an emigre of the Greek Catholic Archbishop. Curriculum vitae

He was educated at the Tambow Seminary, but in 1909 he was expelled for drinking. He was then a psalmist in the Orthodox Church of Lebedin. Since 1920 he served as a priest in the Eparchy of Carycian. He supported the renewal movement, recognized by the orthodox hierarchy as heretical. From 1926 he was a plenipotentiary of the Higher Orthodox Church in Stalingrad. In 1927 he became a preacher in the Taganrog eparchy of the living Orthodox Church. At the beginning. In October 1928 he participated in the meeting of the Synod of the Holy Living Church. In half. In May 1930, he assumed the function of the Bishop of Bytom, and in December 1932 the Bishop of Tver. At the end of July 1933 he lost his bishopric due to actions incompatible with this function. At the beginning. In February 1934 he became the parish priest in Makhachkala. In half. August of that year he was sent to the kurpar eparchy. In half. September was an old-Polish bishop, but he lost his function at the end of December. At the end of January 1935 he was sent to the metropolis of Ivanovo. From the end of April 1936, he was a bishop of Alexandria. At the beginning. In December he became Archbishop of Alexandria. At the end of December 1937 he was head of the metropolis of Ivanovo. At the beginning. December 1938 he was released from this function. He was the economic director of meat processing in Piatigorsk.

After the occupation of the city by the German army in August 1942, he undertook collaborations with the occupying forces. At the same time he declared himself Archbishop. In December of this year he evacuated to Ukraine, where by the Metropolitan of Aleksey (Gromadzki) was at the beginning. In January 1943, he was appointed locum tenens at the head of the Mohammedan Eparchy. At the end of January 1944, he arrived in occupied Warsaw, where, at the behest of the German authorities, he served as a spiritual minister for auxiliary military units composed of representatives of the Soviet Union. At the end of May this year he was awarded the title of "Orthodox leader of the legionaries and military branches of the Wehrmacht and of the defense forces of the General Government." At the same time he addressed the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia to accept him as a cleric. No reply, but the Berlin metropolitan and German Serafin (Lade) adopted him at the end of June to the Foreign Office. Soon, Nikolai P. Awtonomov arrived in Berlin, where he met with the Ataman of the Kozaki Densky Maj. Gen. Peter N. Krasnow. At the beginning. August, with the consent of the Germans, began to become a bishop at the Chief of the Cossack Army. In half. However, the Synod of Foreigners did not recognize this status and proclaimed it self-proclaimed. At the beginning. By 1945 Gen. P. N. Krasnow arrived in northern Italy, where Kozacki was stationed, but was recruited from the Cossacks by the Cossacks and was forced to return to Germany. At the end of the war N. P. Awtonomov was admitted to the Vatican by Pope Pius XII, who accepted him to the Catholic Church, proclaiming the metropolitan German rite of the East. In December 1945 he arrived in Munich, where he started publishing the magazine "Kołokoł". He also funded the Greek Orthodox Church. Nicholas. However, after one year he was abolished and placed in the monastery. In half. In December 1947, he was arrested by the Americans on charges of espionage for the USSR. In half. March 1948 was released. The Apostolic See addressed him to the ministry of the Russian emigres in South America. But he broke up with the Catholic Church

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