Andrei Katkov

Andrei Katkov, born Apollo Katkov, (1916–1995) was a Russian Catholic bishop.

Born on October 26, 1916 in Irkutsk, in baptism was given the name Apollo, being baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. Katkov later emigrated with parents to China and studied in the Catholic elementary school of Lyceum Marian Fathers, converting himself to Catholicism and entering in the Marian Congregation. His mother was Vera Panfilovna Katkova and his father Vladimir Katkoff (both were doctors)<Personal knowledge>. He had a sister- Vlentina Bogatyr (née Katkova) and a niece Marina Hookham (née Bogatyr) He lived for a time in Australia where he helped hundreds of immigrants from China and elsewhere, who were fleeing communism.

In 1939, brother Andrew went to Rome to continue his education, where he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. In 1941 in Rome, received the eternal vows. Priestly ordination of Father Andrew was held on July 30, 1944 by bishop Alexander Evreinov. In 1945 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He graduated from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, lived in Russicum. Sent to work in the refugee camps, helped Russian, who were threatened with forced extradition to the Soviet Union. Father Andrew sent the children from the camps in Rome.

Next Katkov's pastoral ministry was England. In 1950 he moved to England in 1951, he worked in Australia, where, together with Archimandrite George (Bryanchaninov) founded in Melbourne a missionary center for Eastern-rite Catholics. In Australia, the shape of Russian Catholics community of immigrants from China. In 1958, Pope John XXIII summoned Katkov to Rome and was appointed titular bishop, being consecrated on December 21, 1958 by Bishop Alexander Evreinov. Bishop Andrew was appointed ordained coadjutor bishop of the Byzantine rite. In September 1959, he traveled to Australia and served in Melbourne and Sydney. In the same year Bishop consecrated a church in honor of the Presentation of the Virgin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From 1960 to 1984 was authorized by the Congregation for the Oriental Churches as Visitator for Russian living abroad. Ordaining prelate of the Byzantine rite in Rome from 1971 to 1984, continued to help Russian immigrants often send parcels from their Russian assets to Harbin.

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