Andronik Rudenko
Greek-Catholic priest (1894-1951)
Andronik Dmitrievich Rudenko (Russian: Андроник Дмитриевич Руденко; 17 May 1894, Chernyshi, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire – 5 May 1951, Nakhodka, USSR) was a Greek-Catholic priest and a convert from Russian Orthodoxy.
Biography
Andronik Rudenko was born on 17 May 1894 in the village of Chernyshi, Kiev Governorate, in the family of an Orthodox priest. In 1905 the family lived in the Stavishche village, Tarashcha County. On 5 June 1912 he graduated from the Kiev real school, from September 1913 he worked as a teacher in the Stavishche village. In 1915 Rudenko graduated from the military academy in Kiev and sent to the front of a junior officer in an infantry battalion. On 30 November 1916 he was promoted to second lieutenant. He was awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus 3rd degree. On 21 September 1917 Rudenko was awarded to the rank of captain. On 1 February 1918 he was demobilized from the army.
Entered the Kiev Theological Academy, from 1919 at the same time he studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of the University of Kiev.
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