Chrysostom Blashkevich
Chrysostom Blashkevich, OSB (January 27, 1915, Bely, Tver Oblast, Russian Empire - October 3, 1981, Niederalteich, Germany) was a Benedictine monk of Russian origin. Blashkevich was born in a Russian Orthodox family. During World War II was recruited into the Soviet Army, where he turned his coat and served as interpreter in the German Army. In 1945, he converted to Catholicism and entered the Benedictine Order, being dean of the monks of the Russian Greek Catholic Church at Niederalteich Abbey in West Germany. Father Blashkevich was engaged in Catholic ecumenism with other Christian religions but he was also a critic of desacralisation of Catholic doctrine in relation to the dialogue with Protestant denominations and the real intentions of the Orthodox Christian clergy in ecumenism.
Benedictine monk, born 1915
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