Seraphim Lade Explained

Seraphim (Alfred Lade or Karl Georg Albert Lade) (4 June 1883 in Leipzig - 14 September 1950 in Munich) was a metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. During World War II, he supported the invasion of the USSR, but he also saved the life of Alexander (Nyemolovsky), the bishop of Brussels and Belgium, imprisoned by the Gestapo due to his anti-Nazi views.

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