Archimandrite Ilya Denisov (22 January 1893 in

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– 7 September 1971 in

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, United States) was a Russian Greek-Catholic priest.

Biography

Ilya Denisov was born on 22 January 1893 in Saint Petersburg in a Cossack family of Russian Orthodox religion. He studied at the Saint Petersburg,

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and Germany (1910 - 1912). He worked as a clerk at Large of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia . After the

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, emigrated to

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. Then through

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, Hungary and Austria got to

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, where he converted to

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. Denisov studied at the Catholic Institute of Paris. He studied philosophy, theology and history. In 1943 he defended his doctorate in philosophy and in 1946 in theology. In 1948 Denisov moved to the United States. He taught at the

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and Saint Procopius College in Lisle. In 1962 he became a Melkite priest. He served some time in the

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, was then rector of the Catholic Church in Chicago. Father Denisov died on September 7, 1971, in Chicago and was buried in the Benedictine monastery of Saint Procopius in

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, US.

Sources

L'Eglise russe vis-a-vis thomiste. - Louvain, 1936. Maxime le Grec et l'Occident: Contribution a histoire de la pensee religieuse et philosophique de Michel Trivolis. - Louvain, 1943. Descartes: The First Theoretician of Mathematical Physics. - Chicago, 1970. The

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. T. 1. - M., 2002. pp. 1594–1585.

External links

* http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/gi/d_037.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Denisov, Ilya Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Russian Greek-Catholics 1893 births 1971 deaths