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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Metropolitan Benjamin<br />
| image = Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov).jpg<br />
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| birth_name = Ivan Afanasevich Fedchenkov<br />
| occupation = [[Bishop]] of [[Russian Orthodox Church]]<br />
| birth_date = September 14, 1880<br />
| birth_place = [[File:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|20px|]] Tambov Governorate, [[Russian Empire]]<br />
| death_date = October 4, 1961<br />
| death_place = [[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] [[Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery]], [[USSR]]<br />
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'''Metropolitan Benjamin''' or '''Veniamin''' ({{langx|ru|Митрополит Вениамин}}, born '''Iván Afanásevich Fédchenkov''', ''Иван Афанасьевич Федченков''; 14 September 1880 &ndash; 4 October 1961) was a [[bishop]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Church]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[missionary]] and writer.<br />
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== Family ==<br />
His family consisted of two children and a wife.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
Benjamin Fedchenkov was born in the village of [[village|selo]] Vazhki (Ilyinka), [[Tambov Governorate]].<br />
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== 1917–1920. White movement ==<br />
Benjamin supported the White movement and closely cooperated with Wrangel's army of the Crimean peninsula. Benjamin emigrated in November 1920 together with the defeated soldiers of the Wrangel army and other fugitives.<br />
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== Loyalty to Moscow Patriarchate ==<br />
1933–1947 was [[Exarch]] of [[Russian Orthodox Church|Moscow Patriarchate]] in North America.<br />
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From April 19, 1932, was [[Archbishop]].<br />
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From July 14, 1938, was [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the [[Aleutians]] and [[North America]].<br />
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== Return ==<br />
1947–1951 was Metropolitan of [[Riga]] and [[Latvia]].<br />
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1951–1955 was Metropolitan of [[Rostov-on-Don|Rostov]] and [[Novocherkassk]] (from February 8, 1954, Metropolitan of Rostov and [[Kamensk-Shakhtinsky|Kamensk]]).<br />
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November 28, 1955 – February 20, 1958 was Metropolitan of [[Saratov]] and [[Balashov (town)|Balashov]] (from December 26, 1957, Metropolitan of Saratov and [[Volsk]]).<br />
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== Late life ==<br />
He died in [[Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery]], and is buried in the [[cave]]s of the monastery.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
* ('''Russian''') [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927013135/http://la-france-orthodoxe.net/ru/tserk/benjamin Towards the canonization of Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov)] <br />
* ('''Russian''') [https://web.archive.org/web/20030906051521/http://www.ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/ps_file.cgi?2_331 Short biography and the list of Metropolitan Veniamin's works on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"]<br />
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