Nicolai Dubinin

Nikolai Gennadyevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (Russian: Николай Геннадьевич Дубинин, romanized: Nikolay Gennad'evich Dubinin, Russian pronunciation: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaɪ̯ ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪ̯ɪvʲɪd͡ʑ 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.

This article is about a Russian Roman Catholic prelate. For Russian biologist and academician, see Nikolay Dubinin.
In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Gennadevich and the family name is Dubinin.
The Most Reverend

Nicolai Dubinin

O.F.M. Conv.
Auxiliary Bishop of Mother of God at Moscow
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseMother of God at Moscow
SeeMother of God at Moscow
Appointed30 July 2020
Other postsVice-President of the Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors (2018–)
Titular Bishop of Aquae in Byzacena (2020-)
Orders
Ordination24 June 2000
by Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Consecration4 October 2020
by Paolo Pezzi
Personal details
Birth nameNikolai Gennadʹevich Dubinin
Born (1973-05-27) 27 May 1973
Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR
NationalityRussian[1]
Previous postGeneral Custos for the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Russia (2005–18)
Alma materRostov State University
University of Lublin
Coat of arms
Styles of
The Most Rev. Msgr Nicolai Dubinin O.F.M. Conv.
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleMonsignor
Posthumous stylen/a

Life

Dubinin was born in a family of intelligentsia as the younger among two children in the present day Southern Federal District. His paternal relatives were local Russian Orthodoxes while his maternal relatives were Roman Catholics in Byelorussian SSR. According to the Belarus rules for mixed unions, he had to be christened as Roman Catholic as a second child in a family. Nevertheless, he was "unfairly" christened in the Moscow Patriarchate just like his older sister.[2]

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;[3] 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,[4] after graduation of the Major Franciscan Theological Seminary in Łódź, Poland and Catholic University in Lublin, Poland.[3]

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.[3]

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 was 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.[4]

References
  1. Rozanskij, Vladimir (October 7, 2020). "Moscow, Catholic bishop Nikolai Dubinin consecrated". asianews.it. Fondazione PIME Onlus – AsiaNews. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  2. "Епископ Николай Дубинин. Интервью". YouTube (in Russian). MADIDstudio. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  3. "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.
  4. "Father Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 31 July 2020.

See also
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell		 Titular Bishop of Aquae in Byzacena
2020–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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