John Maximovitch

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John Maximovitch


Born
in Adamovka, Russian Federation
June 04, 1896

Died
June 19, 1966

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St. John was born Michael Maximovitch on June 4, 1896 in the village of Adamovka in what was then southern Russia.

He attended Poltava Military School from 1907 to 1914 and then Kharkiv Imperial University from which he graduated with a law degree in 1918.

In 1921, he and his family fled Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. They immigrated to Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia where St. John enrolled in the University of Belgrade and earned a degree in theology.

In 1926 Metropolitan Anthony tonsured him a monk and then ordained him hierodeacon. He took the monastic name John after Saint John Maximovitch of Tobolsk who is his distant relative. He was elevated again to hieromonk that same year.

On May 28, 1934, St. John was
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