Germogen (Maximov)


Metropolitan Germogen was bishop of Aksay , Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk , Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens , Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk , member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad , the head of the Croatian Orthodox Church .

Georgy Ivanovich Maximov was born in 1861 in Stanitsa Nogavskaya in the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire to a Cossack family. His father was a church reader . He finished elementary and parochial school in Nogavskaya and high school in UstMedvedicka. He studied from 187982, in the Don Theological Seminary in Novocherkassk, and then attended the Spiritual Academy in Kiev.

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