Nikodim Krotkov
Nikodim | |
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| Metropolis of Kiev and Galicia Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich | |
Nikodim in 1908 | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
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| Installed | 7 February 1918 |
| Predecessor | Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) |
| Successor | Antony (Khrapovitsky) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov 29 November 1868 Pogreshino, Russian Empire (now Kostroma Oblast, Russia) |
| Died | 21 August 1938 (aged 69) |
Nikodim (Russian: Никодим; born Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кротков); 29 November [O.S. 17 November] 1868 – 21 August 1938) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, later the Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich.
He christmated Pavlo Skoropadskyi as Hetman of Ukraine on 29 April 1918 in the Saint Sophia Cathedral. During the Revolutionary period in Ukraine 1917-1920 he served as a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia as a vicar to the murdered by Bolsheviks Metropolitan Vladimir. In 2000 he was recognized as a hieromartyr by the Russian Orthodox Church.