George Yaroshevsky

Metropolitan George (born Grigory Antonovich Yaroshevsky, Russian: Григорий Антонович Ярошевский; 18/30 November 1872 - 8 February 1923) was the Metropolitan of Warsaw and Russian Patriarchal Exarch in Poland[1] from 11 October 1921 to 8 February 1923.

[1] In 1901 he defended his magistrate dissertation at the Kyiv Theological Academy titled as "Conciliar Epistle of St.

[1] 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[3] to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, emigrating from Russia to what became Yugoslavia.

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

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