Antony (Khrapovitsky)
Russian Orthodox bishop and writer
Died when: 73 years 146 days (880 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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Metropolitan Anthony (Russian: ?????????? ???????, secular name Aleksey Pavlovich Khrapovitsky, Russian: ??????? ???????? ???????????; 17 March (O.S.) 1863 – 10 August 1936) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire, the Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, who after the defeat of Gen Pyotr Wrangel's White Army in South Russia in November 1920 emigrated and in 1921 settled down in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia.
He, along with several other Russian bishops in exile, established an independent Russian church administration that sought to embrace all Russian Orthodox diaspora, known as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
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