Constantine Koronin (September 19, 1881 - December 11, 1924,

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) was a Russian Orthodox (later Greek Catholic) priest.

Biography

Born in Gorodishche,

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, in the Perm Orthodox diocese, John Coronini's son, he also a converted to Catholicism from Orthodoxy. Koronin studied at the Perm and the Tiflis Theological Seminary, in 1909 graduated from the

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with a degree in theology. He studied at the Imperial Archaeological Institute. Constantine Koronin served as rector of the church in the Petrakovskaya county (Diocese of

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), being from 1913 rector at Warsaw prison. Since the beginning of the

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he was evacuated. In 1915 became rector of the Cathedral of Chita, a member of the Diocesan Council of the Trans-Baikal and diocesan missionary preacher. In 1921 twice been attempted by the

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, in the same year immigrated to China, becoming the abbot of Holy Church in Iver Harbin and Professor of Russian-Chinese Polytechnic Institute and chairman of the commission that drafted the Far East Council of Churches.

Conversion to Catholicism and death

In 1923 Koronin joined to

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came from Russian Orthodoxy and died in 1924 of stomach cancer.

Sources

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. Catholic communities of the Byzantine Rite and the Russian diaspora. * Zhilevich (Miroshnichenko) T. In memory of the dead in the land of Manchuria and harbintsah. - Melbourne, 2000. S. 83. * Tretjakewitsch L. Bishop Michel d `Herbigny sj and Russia. Augustinus-Verlag Wurzburg, 1990. - P. 168–254. * Biography of Fr. KI Cronin. - Library of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. * Vlasov piano Waldenberg B. A brief sketch of the Catholic movement in the Far East (1925-1935 gg.) - / / The Catholic Herald. - Harbin, 1935, No. 1. * Jazep Hermanovich, Fr. China, Siberia, Moscow. (Translated from Belarus). - Melbourne, 1997. - P.12-13. * Diodor Kolpinskiy, Fr. Catholicism in the Russian Far East. - / / Kitezh. - Warsaw, 1931, No. 1. *

, Fr. John and Fr Constantine Koronin- Russian Byzantine Rite Catholic priests. - / / Siberian Catholic newspaper. - Novosibirsk, 2004, No. 10. - P. 10–11.; Continued number 11, p. 15-17, 22. * Konstantin Nikolaev Eastern Rite. - Paris: YMCA, 1950.

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* http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/kl/k_158.htm * http://veritas.katolik.ru/books/rus-katolic.htm * http://vselenskiy.narod.ru/coron.htm * http://www.procatholic.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1607:2009-05-19-08-18-22&catid=69:2008-02-26-13-17-45&Itemid=59 1881 births 1924 deaths Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Russian Greek-Catholics {{Russia-reli-bio-stub