Constantine Coronini

Constantine Coronini (September 19, 1881 - 1924, Harbin, China ) was a Russian Orthodox (later Greek Catholic) priest.

Biography

Born in the Gorodishche village, Solikamsky District, in the Perm Orthodox diocese, John Coronini's son, he also a converted to Catholicism from Orthodoxy. Coronini studied at the Perm and the Tiflis Theological Seminary, in 1909 graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy with a degree in theology. He studied at the Imperial Archaeological Institute. Constantine Coronini served as rector of the church in the Petrakovskaya county (Diocese of Warsaw), being from 1913 rector at Warsaw prison. Since the beginning of the First World War he was evacuated. In 1915 became rector of the Cathedral of Chita, a member of the Diocesan Council of the Trans-Baikal and diocesan missionary preacher. In 1921 twice been attempted by the Bolsheviks, in the same year immigrated to China, becoming the abbot of Holy Church in Iver Harbin and Professor of Russian-Chinese Polytechnic Institute and chairman of the commission that drafted the Far East Council of Churches.

Conversion to Catholicism and death

In 1923 Coronini joined to Catholic Church came from Russian Orthodoxy and died in 1924 of stomach cancer.