Nicolai Dubinin
Nicolai Dubinin | |
|---|---|
| Auxiliary Bishop-elect of Mother of God at Moscow | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Mother of God at Moscow |
| See | Mother of God at Moscow |
| Appointed | 30 July 2020 |
| Other post(s) | Vice-President of the Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors (2018–) Titular Bishop of Aquae in Byzacena (2020-) |
| Previous post(s) | General Custos for the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Russia (2005–18) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 24 June 2000 by Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz |
| Consecration | 4 October 2020 (upcoming) by Paolo Pezzi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nikolai Gennadʹevich Dubinin 27 May 1973 |
| Alma mater | Rostov State University University of Lublin |
Bishop-elect Nicolai Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (Template:Lang-ru, Russian pronunciation: [nʲɪkəˈlaj ɡʲɛˈn:adʲvʲɪtɕ dʊˈbinʲɪn]; born 27 May 1973) is a Russian Roman Catholic prelate as the Titular Bishop of Aquae in Byzacena and Auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow since 30 July 2020.
Life
Bishop-elect Dubinin was born in a family of intelligentsia as the younger among two children in the present day Southern Federal District. After graduation of the school education, joined Faculty of Philology at the Rostov State University (1990–1993), but subsequently entered to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in 1994;[1] he made a profession on September 8, 1995 and a solemn profession on October 3, 1998, and was ordained as priest on June 24, 2000,[2] after graduation of the Major Franciscan Theological Seminary in Łódź, Poland and Catholic University in Lublin, Poland.[1]
He returned to Russia and began to work in the Franciscan parishes and as superior of the different local Franciscan communities, with the break during 2002–2005, when he studied at the Pastoral Liturgical Institute in Padua, Italy with the licentiate of the Liturgical Theology degree. From 2005 until 2018 he served as a General Custos of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Russia and at the same time was a lecturer at the Major Theological Seminary of Mary – the Queen of Apostles in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.[1]
On July 30, 2020, he was appointed by the Pope Francis as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow and Titular Bishop of Aquae in Byzacena. On October 4, 2020, he is expecting to be consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Paolo Pezzi and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Назначен вспомогательный епископ Архиепархии Божией Матери в Москве". Official Website of the Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow (in Russian). Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Father Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 31 July 2020.