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The Very Reverend '''Boris Bobrinskoy''' is an Orthodox [[priest]], and [[protopresbyter]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. He was Dean and Professor of Dogmatic Theology at [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St Sergius Institute]], Paris, and Rector of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Paris, and a [[protopresbyter]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]].  

Boris Bobrinskoy was born in Paris in 1925, the son of Russian parents who migrated to France after the 1917 Revolution. Following the death of his mother when he was only ten, he was sent to boarding schools in Namur (Belgium) and Paris run by Jesuits of the Byzantine rite. In 1942 he took Father Cyprian (Kern ) as his spiritual father, and served as an [[acolyte]] at the St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on rue Rue Daru throughout World War II.

After receiving his baccalaureate in 1944, Bobrinskoy began his theological studies at the St Sergius Institute, the same year as [[John Meyendorff]]. There, he came under the influence of faculty members such as Fathers [[Georges Florovsky]], [[Nicholas Afanasiev]], [[Cyprian (Kern)|Cyprian Kern]], and [[Alexander Schmemann]], [[Anton Vladimirovich Kartashev|Antony Kartashev]], and [[Leon Zander]]. He was also strongly influenced by [[Vladimir Lossky]], who was Dean and Professor at the [[St. Denys Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St Denys Institute]]. In 1949, he completed his studies with the submission of his thesis on the mystery of [[chrismation]] in fourth-century Syro-Palestinian tradition.

Bobrinskoy began his master's work under the direction of Florovsky, who arranged for him to study for two years in Athens, Greece. Upon his return to St Sergius, he began teaching history, but in 1954 he accepted the chair in dogmatic theology, (which he continues to hold to this dayheld until 2009). This was followed three years later by his marriage to Hélène Disterlo, who was to give birth to the couple's three children. He was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] in the spring of 1959 and [[priest]] in the fall.

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