Talk:Benjamin of Petrograd

Some mistakes and lack of information

1. There was never a Spiritual (e.g. Theological) Academy in Samara. The only four cities in Tsarist Russia where such a school actually existed were Moscow, Petersburg, Kazan and Kiev. Veniamin was the rector of a seminary, which is a different type of theological school (lower lever).
2. Hieromonks certainly are not such a "rarity" in Eastern Orthodoxy and definitely they were not in Tsarist Russia. There were hieromonks in virtually every monastery (hundreds of these all over the country), many of the seminarian teachers were also monks ordained to priesthood.
3. The name of metropolitan Pitirim of Petrograd is spelled wrongly, it should be transliterated as Pitirim (Oknov). Moreover, I have a doubt if he was arrested in 1917. That's correct that he was deposited due to his close contacts with Rasputin, but I'm not sure if the Provisional Government ordered to arrest him as well.
4. The article says nothing about Benjamin's pastoral activities among the poor, the prostitutes, the working class, about his great popularity among the Petrograd flock (which makes it clear why it was him who was elected to the metropolitanate although the Church's highest officials promoted other candidates). This is also quite important to explain why the Bolsheviks were determined to have him executed during the 1922 antireligious campaign. 86.111.101.252 (talk) 11:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Merge from Veniamin of Petersburg

I fully agree that Veniamin of Petersburg be merged into Saint Benjamin of Petrograd. Both articles are obviously about the same person. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 14:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Seeing no discussion and the logic of the merge seeming indisputable, I have performed the merge. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 23:48, 19 January 2014 (UTC)