Germogen | |
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Metropolitan of Zagreb and whole Croatia | |
Church | Croatian Orthodox Church |
See | Zagreb |
Installed | 6 June 1942 |
Term ended | 30 June 1945 |
Predecessor | Church formed |
Successor | Church abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Georgy Ivanovich Maximov 10 January 1861 |
Died | 30 June 1945 Zagreb, FS Croatia, DF Yugoslavia | (aged 84)
Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
Metropolitan Germogen (Russian: Митрополит Гермоген), secular name Georgy Ivanovich Maximov, (Russian: Георгий Иванович Максимов; 10 January 1861 – 30 June 1945) was bishop of Aksay (9 May 1910 – 1919), Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (1919 – November 1920), Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens (1922), Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (ROCOR, titular) (1922–1942), member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1924–1942), the head (Patriarch or Metropolitan) of the Croatian Orthodox Church (1942–1945).