Boris Georgiyevich Rotov

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Person.png Boris Georgiyevich Rotov  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(priest)
BornBoris Georgiyevich Rotov
15 October 1929
Frolovo, Korablinsky District, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died5 September 1978 (Age 48)
Rome, Italy
NationalitySoviet
ReligionRussian Orthodox
Victim ofpremature death
Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad until his premature death at age 48 at the Vatican.

Metropolitan Nikodim (secular name Boris Georgiyevich Rotov) was the Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod from 1963 until his death.

Death

Nikodim collapsed and died in1978 while in Rome for the installation of Pope John Paul I. The new pope, who died - possibly assassinated - a few weeks later, prayed over him in his final moments.[1]

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