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Митрополит Виталий (Metropolitan Vitaly). Jubilee edition with biographical and historical information about Metroplitan Vitaly (Ustinov) (1910-2006). He was First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) from 1985 until his retirement in 2001. Of particular interest was his missionary work, together with archimandrite Nathaniel (Lvov) (see below) with Russian refugees and prisoners of war, specifically at Camp Fischbeck near Hamburg, where they concentrated on the work of preventing thousands of refugees from being compulsorily repatriated to the USSR.
Signed by Митрополит Виталий! Text is in Russian and in the old Orthography. Committee of Russian Orthodox Youth Abroad (Jordanville Press), 2000. 173 pages. Small hardcover, gilt titles, several photos. Fine condition. 1 copy only.
Archbishop Nathanael, was in the world named Vasily Vladimirovich Lvov (1906-1986), and was a ROCOR bishop. He wrote many theological, polemical and historical works and sermons, which purpose was to defend Orthodoxy and the position of ROCOR. He was born into nobility, studied in St. Petersburg, Buguruslan and Tomsk, where he stayed due to the retreat of the White Army to the East. He later fled, together with his mother and younger brothers, to Manchuria before the advancing Red Army,
Fr. Nathanael spent the war years in St. Job of Pochaev Monastery in Ladomirová in Slovakia editing monastery publication and writing for the Russian people on the territories of the USSR occupied by Axis powers. After the end of World War II, Fr. Nathanael, together with Fr. Vitaly (Ustinov), also of the Ladomirová Brotherhood, prevented the forced repatriation of the displaced persons to the USSR from Northern Germany.
