Seraphim (Alfred Lade or Karl Georg Albert Lade) (4 June 1883 in Leipzig - 14 September 1950 in Munich) was a metropolitan of the

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. During

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, he supported the invasion of the USSR, but he also saved the life of Alexander (Nyemolovsky), the bishop of Brussels and Belgium, imprisoned by the

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due to his anti-Nazi views.

References

*Сорокалетие служения в священном сане Высокопреосвященнейшего Серафима, Митрополита Берлинского и Германского // «Православная Русь». — 1947. — № 14. — С. 14 *Кончина митрополита Серафима // «Православная Русь». — 1950. — № 18. — С. 4 *Протопресвитер Георгий Граббе Фантастическая история. Гитлер и РПЦЗ (1955) // Собрание сочинений, т.2, Монреаль 1970, стр. 161—172. *К 40-летию кончины митрополита Серафими (Ляде). Правда и ложь // «Вестник Германской епархии РПЦЗ». — 1990. — № 6. — С. 19-25 *А. А. Кострюков. Русская Зарубежная Церковь в 1939—1964 гг. Административное устройство и отношения с Церковью в Отечестве. — Москва: Издательство ПСТГУ, 2015. *Лавринов В., прот. Обновленческий раскол в портретах его деятелей. — М.: Общество любителей церковной истории, 2016. — 736 с. — (Материалы по истории Церкви. Кн. 54). — . {{DEFAULTSORT:Seraphim 1883 births 1950 deaths Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia German bishops