George Yaroshevsky

Metropolitan George (born Grigory Antonovich Yaroshevsky, Григорий Антонович Ярошевский; 18/30 November 1872 - 8 February 1923) was the Metropolitan of Warsaw and Russian Patriarchal Exarch in Poland from 11 October 1921 to 8 February 1923.

He was born in the family of the Orthodox priest Antoniy Yaroshevsky and his wife Dominika in a village of Mala Ternivka (today Ternivka) in Podolia Governorate. His father was a parochial priest in Olhopil parish. George (Yaroshevsky) was an ethnic Ukrainian.

George (Yaroshevsky) was a graduate of the Kyiv Theological Academy as a Candidate of Theology in 1897. In 1900 he was tonsured as a monk and consecrated as a priest (iereus). In 1901 he defended his magistrate dissertation at the Kyiv Theological Academy titled as "Conciliar Epistle of St. Jacob".

George (Yaroshevsky) left the territory of what was Russian Republic for Constantinople and later Serbia. On January 16, 1920, on the “archiereus” cargo steamboat “Irtysh” together with a number of other Russian bishops, archimandrites and priests (together with bishops Eulogius (Georgiyevsky), Mitrofan (Abramov), Gabriel (Chepur) and Apollinarius (Koshevy)) he sailed from Novorossiysk through the occupied by Entente Constantinople and Thessaloniki to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, emigrating from Russia to what became Yugoslavia.

During occupation of Ukraine by the Armed Forces of South Russia, he was appointed by the Higher Church Administration of South Russia as locum tenens of the eparchy of Kharkiv. In 1920s Archbishop George (Yaroshevsky) was assisting Archbishop Eulogius (Georgiyevsky) in administration of the Russian Orthodox Dioceses in Western Europe.

After the Bolshevik regime in Moscow started Renovationism, in June 1922 he assembled the first Council of Orthodox Bishops in Poland.

On 8 February 1923 George (Yaroshevsky) was assassinated by Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church Smaragd (Latyshenko).

Bishopric appointments of George (Yaroshevsky)

 * 1906 – ordained as a vicar bishop of Kashira of the Tula Eparchy
 * 1 February 1908 a vicar bishop of Pryluky of the Poltava Eparchy
 * 19 November 1910 a vicar bishop of Yamburg of the Saint Petersburg Eparchy and a rector of the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy
 * 13 May 1913 bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk
 * 6 July 1916 bishop of Minsk and Turov
 * 1918 became an archbishop
 * 11 October 1921 archbishop of Warsaw, Patriarchal Exarch in Poland
 * 30 January 1922 became a metropolitan

Works

 * Conciliar Epistle of St. Jacob: Experience of isagogy-exegetical research (Соборное послание Св. Апостола Иакова: Опыт исагогико-экзегетического исследования.) Kyiv, 1901. Magisterial dissertation. (in Russian)