Patriarch Sergius ( Stragorodsky)... Until recently, the name was little known to those who are unfamiliar with the history of the church. Few historians remember that. Arzamas. is the birthplace of the patriarch. Almost no information about it.
Meanwhile, even listing the major milestones of his biography is of interest: a well-known spiritual writer, a missionary in Japan, the rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, Nizhny Novgorod Metropolitan, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. His life took place at the break of the century, the service - at the time of the destruction of shrines and temples of the destruction. Honor and respect he deserved in Czarist Russia, was widely known in Russia, the Soviet.
The activity of Metropolitan Sergius provoked a mixed reaction.
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