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[[Image:Afanasiev.jpg|thumb|Nikolai Afanasiev]]
'''Nikolai Nikolaivich Afanasiev''' (1893-1966) (НИКОЛАЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ АФАНАСЬЕВ) was a prominent Russian [[priest ]] and theologian.
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Afanasiev was born in Odessa on [[September 4]], 1893, the son of Nikolai Grigorevich Afanasiev, a lawyer, and Proskovya Yakovlevna. After studying mathematics at university, he served in the White Army artillery during the civil war following the Russian Revolution. He married his wife, Marianne, in Prague in 1925.
Afanasiev pursued graduate studies at the University of Belgrade, studying under A. P. Dobroklonsky, the noted historian of the Russian Church. He received his doctorate in 1927 after defending his dissertation, ''Authority of the State and Oecumenical Cathedrals''. He taught at the Orthodox [[seminary ]] in Skopije from 1925-1930, and then began teaching church history and canon law at the [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St Sergius Institute]] in 1930. Afanasiev was [[ordination|ordained ]] a priest on [[January 6]], 1940 by [[Eulogius (Georgievsky) of Paris| Metropolitan Evlogy]]; he was accompanied acround around the [[altar ]] by [[Sergius Bulgakov]] and [[Cyprian Kern]]. He took up pastoral work in Tunisia from 1941-1947, then returning to St Sergius in 1947. He died [[December 4]], 1966.
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