Back نيكوديم (قس من الامبراطوريه الروسيه) ARZ Nikodem (Krotkow) Polish Nikodim Krotkov Romanian Никодим (Кротков) Russian Никодим Костромски Serbian Никодим (Кротков) Ukrainian
Nicodemius | |
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| Metropolis of Kiev and Galicia Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich | |
.jpg) Nicodemius in 1908 | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See |
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| Installed | 7 February 1918 |
| Predecessor | Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) |
| Successor | Antony (Khrapovitsky) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov 29 November 1868 Pogreshino, Russian Empire (now Kostroma Oblast, Russia) |
| Died | 21 August 1938 (aged 69) Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
Nicodemius (Russian: Никодим; born Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кротков); 29 November [O.S. 17 November] 1868 – 21 August 1938) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, later the Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich.
He christmated Pavlo Skoropadskyi as Hetman of Ukraine on 29 April 1918 in the Saint Sophia Cathedral. During the Revolutionary period in Ukraine 1917-1920 he served as a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia as a vicar to the murdered by Bolsheviks Metropolitan Vladimir. In 2000 he was recognized as a hieromartyr by the Russian Orthodox Church.