Real name Vsevolod Alexandrovich, Bishop of the Russian Church, who lived in Western Europe; 31 May 1960 Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium. Scientist patrologist. Graduated from high school (1916), studied the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University and Moscow University. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Sorbonne. Doctor of Theology (1964), title awarded by the Board of the Leningrad Theological Academy for scientific publication "Catechetical words" St. Symeon the New Theologian). During the February Revolution in Petrograd was a university student (in this capacity, has become one of the characters in the book Solzhenitsyn "March seventeenth"). During the Civil War fought in the volunteer army, after heavy freezing (during which lost two fingers on his hand) was taken at the end of 1919, out of Novorossiysk in Cairo, from where he moved to Paris. Participated in the Russian Christian Student Movement. In 1925, he made a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, leaving a novice at St. Panteleimon Monastery. Studied Greek, while staying on Mount Athos was a scientist. As secretary of the monastery grammars, and subsequently authorized representative (antiprosop) Panteleimon Monastery in the Holy cinemas Holy Mountain, was admitted to Mount Athos archives of ancient manuscripts. Published a study on "The ascetic and theological teaching of St. Gregory Palamas "(published in Prague in 1936, in the yearbook Seminarium Kondakovianum; translated into English and German), and then gained international fame as a scholar patrologist. Saw the value of the works of St. Gregory Palamas in Orthodox theology is that it is "his doctrine of the uncreated light and the divine energies ... led indestructible theological basis for the traditional mystical teachings of the Orthodox Church." Defended these works of criticism from some Catholic scholars. Spoke out against the restrictive measures of the Greek authorities, which prevented the arrival of Athos monks having foreign nationality, in particular, the Russian refugees. As a result, in September 1947 was forced to leave the Holy Mountain, still officially enrolled in the brotherhood of the St. Panteleimon monastery. From February 1951, lived in Oxford. On May 21, 1951, assistant to the rector of the church of St. Nicholas of Oxford. Beginning in 1951, is under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. While at Oxford involved in the preparation published by Oxford University Theological Dictionary of Greek patristic language. In September 1951 he was a delegate of the First International Congress of patrologists, participated in each of the Oxford patrologicheskih Congresses (1951-1979 only took nine of these conventions). He participated in conferences and meetings of the Commonwealth St. Albania and Ven. Sergius.