Converting to Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy Aleksandr Nikolaevič Evreinov was of noble origins from Saint Petersburg. A member of the Foreign Affairs department of the Russian nation before his conversion to the Catholic faith and ordination to the priesthood, he began to work in the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris.
Elected Bishop of the Titular See of Pionia, during the Second World War he headed the Pontifical Committee for Aid to Prisoners of War, then from 1947 to 1959, led the department of the foreign press at the State Secretariat of the Vatican. On August 20, 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Parium.
Living in Rome at the Pontifical Russian Collegium Russicum, Evreinov died on August 20, 1959 in Rome aged 82 and was buried in the Greek Catholic Monastery of Grottaferrata.
Elected Bishop of the Titular See of Pionia, during the Second World War he headed the Pontifical Committee for Aid to Prisoners of War, then from 1947 to 1959, led the department of the foreign press at the State Secretariat of the Vatican. On August 20, 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Parium.
Living in Rome at the Pontifical Russian Collegium Russicum, Evreinov died on August 20, 1959 in Rome aged 82 and was buried in the Greek Catholic Monastery of Grottaferrata.
Converting to Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy Aleksandr Nikolaevič Evreinov was of noble origins from Saint Petersburg. A member of the Foreign Affairs department of the Russian nation before his conversion to the Catholic faith and ordination to the priesthood, he began to work in the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris.
Elected Bishop of the Titular See of Pionia, during the Second World War he headed the Pontifical Committee for Aid to Prisoners of War, then from 1947 to 1959, led the department of the foreign press at the State Secretariat of the Vatican. On August 20, 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Parium.
Living in Rome at the Pontifical Russian Collegium Russicum, Evreinov died on August 20, 1959 in Rome aged 82 and was buried in the Greek Catholic Monastery of Grottaferrata.
Elected Bishop of the Titular See of Pionia, during the Second World War he headed the Pontifical Committee for Aid to Prisoners of War, then from 1947 to 1959, led the department of the foreign press at the State Secretariat of the Vatican. On August 20, 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Parium.
Living in Rome at the Pontifical Russian Collegium Russicum, Evreinov died on August 20, 1959 in Rome aged 82 and was buried in the Greek Catholic Monastery of Grottaferrata.
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