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His Grace Bishop Andrij of Krateia |
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Andrij (in the world Bogdan Peshko) was born on April 27, 1972 in Ukraine.
In 1979 he entered an Elementary School and received Certificate of the
Secondary Education in 1989. In 1989 he enrolled into the first year of
St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, which he graduated from in 1993. In
1994-1995 he studied at Christ the Savior Seminary (Carpatho-Russian Diocese
of the Ecumenical Patriarchate) in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA under the
omoforion of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas (Smishko) of Amissos. In
1995-1999 he completed the full course of Kyiv Theological Academy. On December
25, 2000 the Academic Council of Kyiv Theological Academy awarded him with
the “Candidate of Theology” – Master’s Degree after
defense of his dissertation on a theme : “Historically-Liturgical
Research of the Rites of Installations and Ordinations in the Orthodox Church”.
On April 8, 2001 he was ordained a deacon by His Eminence Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidanski) of Scopelos at St.Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Chicago. On September 29, 2003 he was promoted to a rank of protodeacon. On September 21, 2005 on a blessing of Archbishop Vsevolod he was tonsured a monk and given a name of Andrij (in honor of St. Apostel Andrew the First-Called) at St.Volodymyr cathedral in Chicago. On September 25, 2005 he was ordained to a rank of hieromonk and was promoted to a rank of ihumen by His Eminence Archbishop Vsevolod. |
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