Seraphim

Seraphim (Alfred Lade or Karl Georg Albert Lade) (4 June 1883 in Leipzig - 14 September 1950 in Munich) was a metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. During World War II, he supported the invasion of the USSR, but he also saved the life of Alexander (Nyemolovsky), the bishop of Brussels and Belgium, imprisoned by the Gestapo due to his anti-Nazi views.

Early life and education Lade was born into a Protestant family in Leipzig and converted to Orthodoxy at the age of 20; he studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and the Moscow Theological Academy.

He married in 1907, but his wife died in 1920.

During WWII he supported the Third Reich and took responsibility for the Metropolitan Evlogii as well as the ROCOR congregations; in 1942 he was given the title of “Metropolitan Seraphim of Central Europe, referring to his parishes in Austria, the Czech lands and Slovakia”.

Publications His publications include;

Science and Religion (Wissenschaft und Religion, 1946) The Immortality of the Soul (Die Unsterblichkeit der Seele, 1947) Apologetical Essays (Apologetische Aufsätze, 1948) Orthodox Dogma (Das Orthodoxe Dogma, 1948) The Eastern Church (Die Ostkirche, 1950)

See also links Archbishop Tikhon Eulogius Georgiyevsky