Vladimir Abrikosov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Abrikosov (22 October 1880 – 22 July 1966) was a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite who converted from Russian Orthodoxy, and a member of Russian apostolate in the Diaspora.

Abrikosov was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church, but in his youth his attitude towards religion became critical. Abrikosov graduated from the 5th Moscow Gymnasium and historical-philological faculty of Moscow University, and also studied at Oxford. In 1905, married his cousin Anna Abrikosova. For five years the couple traveled to Europe, where he became seriously interested in Catholicism.

In 1908, Anna Abrikosova converted to Catholicism and a year later, Vladimir. In 1910, Abrikosov returned to Russia. In his apartment in Moscow, they organized meetings of intellectuals, speaking to them on religious subjects and material support for poor Catholic children. Abrikosov's apartment was at that time one of the main centers of distribution of Catholic ideas in Moscow. In 1913, the couple taken novitiate of the Third Order of the Dominicans, in the same year, during a trip to Rome, they brought vows and became members of the Order, and they had an audience with Pope Pius X. In Russia Abrikosov practiced Latin rite, thinking back to the Byzantine when it received sufficient development in Russia.

On 29 May 1917, Vladimir Abrikosov took part in the Council of the Russian Greek Catholic Church and was ordained a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite by a Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and in the same year he was appointed him rector of the Moscow Greek Catholic parish and head of the Moscow Dominicans.

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