Dositheus

Archbishop Dositheus (secular name Mikhail Matveyevich Ivanchenko, ; 9 (21) November 1884 - 1 June 1984) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, bishop of Brooklyn.

Biography In 1910 he entered the mathematical faculty of Kharkov University. On 1 (14) April 1914, at the St. Elijah church in Syzran, held his wedding with female gymnasium teacher Klavdia Georgievna Kopylova.

Same year he graduated from the university on the first category and was assigned to a teaching post in the Ufa Men's Gymnasium, where he also ran a church choir. In 1916 he defended his thesis for the title of Master of Mathematics. Metropolitan Theophilus (Buldovsky) of Kharkov UAOC, appointed him rector of the parish in the village Kotelva. In January 1942 Metropolitan Theophilus (Buldovsky) awarded him a pectoral cross. In the same year he received from the Theophilus (Buldovsky) the rank of archpriest and palitsa. The funeral was performed on June 5 in the patriarchal parish in the name of All Saints of Russia in Pine Bush, New York. Buried in a church cemetery in Pine Bush, which was founded in 1962 by his care.

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