Sergei, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

Patriarch Sergei (Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky) served as 12th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1943-1944. He had previously served as Bishop of Jamburg, Cicar of the St. Peterburg diocese, Archbishop of Vyborg and all Finland, and Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod. Grigori Rasputin contacted him as one of the first in the capital. He was arrest by the Bolsheviks in January 1921; being exiled after several months in jail to Nizhny-Novgorod.