KHRAPOVITZKY, ANTONH

KHRAPOVITZKY, ANTONH, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich, emigre churchman (1864–11 August 1936). After studying at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and lecturing there in Old Testament studies, he became rector of the Moscow Theological Academy and then the Kazan Academy. He was made Vicar Bishop of Kazan, then of Oufa, Volnia, and Kharkov, and finally Metropolitan of Kiev, and was one of three nominated to be Patriarch of Russia at the 1918 All-Russian Sobor. He was known for supporting educated monastics and thought they should lead the Church. In the reinstitution of the patriarchate (q.v.) he anticipated an office with absolute ecclesiastical power, an office that collaborated in matters of Church and state (q.v.), but ultimately reigned supreme. He left Russia after the Revolution to settle in Yugoslavia as president of the Synod in Exile (q.v.) in Karlovci. Although theologically liberal, he is more remembered for his conservative and reactionary post-Revolutionary political thought. He is known for his positions on Canon Law (q.v.), as well as for being the author of “Confession: A Series of Lectures on the Mystery of Repentance” (trans. 1975), Dostoevsky’s Concept of Spiritual Rebirth (trans. 1980), and “Concerning the Dogma of Redemption” (Constructive Quarterly, June 1919).