Potapy Emelianov [SEP] date of death
Potapy Emelianov
Potapy Emelianov (1884, Ufa, Guberniya, Russian Empire – 14 August 1936, Karelian ASSR, USSR) was a Russian Catholic priest and confessor who entered into communion with Rome from the Old Ritualist tradition of Russian Orthodoxy with his entire parish.
Early life.
Potapy Emelianov was born into a family of Priestless Old Believers who were later received into the Old Ritualists by the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Ufa, Anthony (Khrapovitsky). He was tonsured and subsequently ordained as a hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox
His cause for possible beatification opened in 2003 where he received the title of a Servant of God.
External links.
- The Life and Death of Father Potapy Emelianov (In Russian) by Pavel Parfentiev.
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Further reading.
- Fr. Paul Mailleux, "Exarch Leonid Feodorov; Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow," 1964.
- Irina I. Osipova, "Hide Me Within Thy Wounds; The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR", Germans From Russia Heritage Collection,