Diodor Kolpinskiy

Diodor Kolpinskiy (1892–1932) was an Eastern Catholic priest from Russia. Kolpinskiy was born in an Orthodox family, converted in 1911 to Latin Rite Catholicism with his family, and left Russia for studies in Rome. In 1915, he was ordained a Latin priest and ministried in Saint Petersburg. In 1917, he transited to Byzantine rite, taking part in the first Russian Catholic synod of the Russian Catholic Church led by Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Andrey Sheptytsky. After 1920, Kolpinskiy emigrated from his native homeland and died in 1932.

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