«Справжній лідер, людина з великим характером…»: перипетії долі буковинського священника архіпресвітера-ставрофора д-ра Кассіяна Богатирця (1868-1960) на тлі трьох історичних епох
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2023-12-29Author
Чучко, Михайло Костянтинович
Chuchko, Mykhailo
Ciuciko, Myhailo
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The article is dedicated to the personality of the prominent church and public
figure of Bukovina, archpriest - stavrophore, PHD in Theology, Casian Dmitrievich
Bogatyrets (1868-1960). This priest left a noticeable mark in the history of both
the Bukovina Metropolis of the final period of Austrian rule and the era of Greater
Romania, and the initial stage of the formation of the diocese of the post-war period,
in which he was the oldest cleric at the time of consecration in the archpriest rank.
Belonging to yeomanry, a graduate of the Cernăuţi gymnasium and the theological
faculty of the University of Cernăuţi, who received a doctorate in theology, he
performed church service with worthy zeal in various parishes of the region.
Engaged in parallel social and political activities, before the outbreak of the
First World War, he had led the radical wing of the russophile movement. In the
interwar period, he was the head of the archpriestship and a member of the Diocesan
Assembly of the Bukovinian Metropolis. In May 1938 he accompanied Patriarch
Miron (Cristea) of Romania and Metropolitan Visarion (Puiu) of Bukovina on a trip
to Poland.
Having left the region after the occupation of the northern part of Bukovina by
Soviet troops in 1940, he returned to Cernăuţi during the war and was engaged in the
missionary work in the Bukovina metropolis. Having remained in Cernăuţi in 1944,
during the second coming of Soviet power, he stood at the origins of the creation of
the Cernăuţi diocese of the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. He
is the author of the handwritten History of the Cernăuţi Diocese, published in 2015.