George Yaroshevsky

Metropolitan George (born Grigory Antonovich Yaroshevsky, ; 18/30 November 1872 - 8 February 1923) was the Metropolitan of Warsaw and Russian Patriarchal Exarch in Poland from 11 October 1921 to 8 February 1923.

Biography He was born in the family of the Orthodox priest Antoniy Yaroshevsky and his wife Dominika in a village of Mala Ternivka (today Ternivka) in Podolia Governorate. His father was a parochial priest in Olhopil parish. George (Yaroshevsky) was an ethnic Ukrainian.

George (Yaroshevsky) was a graduate of the Kyiv Theological Academy as a Candidate of Theology in 1897. to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, emigrating from Russia to what became Yugoslavia.

During occupation of Ukraine by the Armed Forces of South Russia, he was appointed by the Higher Church Administration of South Russia as locum tenens of the eparchy of Kharkiv.

Bishopric appointments of George (Yaroshevsky) 1906 – ordained as a vicar bishop of Kashira of the Tula Eparchy 1 February 1908 a vicar bishop of Pryluky of the Poltava Eparchy 19 November 1910 a vicar bishop of Yamburg of the Saint Petersburg Eparchy and a rector of the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy 13 May 1913 bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk 6 July 1916 bishop of Minsk and Turov 1918 became an archbishop 11 October 1921 archbishop of Warsaw, Patriarchal Exarch in Poland 30 January 1922 became a metropolitan

Works Conciliar Epistle of St. Jacob: Experience of isagogy-exegetical research (Соборное послание Св. Апостола Иакова: Опыт исагогико-экзегетического исследования.) Kyiv, 1901. Magisterial dissertation. (in Russian)