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Archbishop Gregory (secular name George Sergeyevich Afonsky, (ロシア語:Георгий Серге́евич Афонский); April 17, 1925 – April 14, 2008) was the Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska from 1973 to 1995, and author of books on Theology and Orthodoxy in America in both Russian and English. He was a key figure in the establishment and elevation of what is now St. Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary,〔(In Memoriam: Archbishop Gregory (Afonsky) )〕 and served as episcopal moderator of the Department of History and Archives and chairman of the Canonization Commission for the Orthodox Church in America. ==Early life== He was born George Sergeievich Afonsky in Kiev, Ukraine to Archpriest Sergei and Matushka Vera Afonsky, as one of five other children: Boris, Ariadna, Michael, Nina, and Sergei. George's maternal grandfather was Russian New Martyr and Priest Michael Jedlinsky.〔(Сергей Афонский. Церковь в горниле испытаний (Воспоминания о ректоре КДС протоиерее Сергие Афонском) )〕 Because of religious persecution, times were dangerous for the Afonsky-Jedlinsky family. At one point, George's father was the only functioning priest in Kiev, with his mother single-handedly baking all the prosphora and George carrying them to church with his siblings. In 1937, his grandfather was executed during the Soviet anti-religious campaigns.〔(Издательство «ДУХ I ЛІТЕРА» представляет: Священник Михаил Едлинский, Священник Георгий Едлинский: Любящее Господа сердце. К.: Дух i літера, 2004. )〕 With the advent of the Second World War and subsequent occupation of Ukraine by Axis troops, George was separated from his family at 17 and taken by the Nazis to work in a labor camp. After the War, in 1949, he received his Bachelor's Degree from the Real Gymnasium of Wendling, Austria, and emigrated to the United States to live with his uncle, noted religious composer and conductor Nicholas P. Afonsky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gregory (Afonsky)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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