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VSEVOLOD LEONIDOVICH MARTYSIEWICZ WAS BORN IN K\u0410MBARKA, RUSSIA, ON FEBRUARY 29TH, \u00a01920, TO FATHER LEONID\u00a0AND\u00a0MATYSHKA ALEXANDRA. THE SECOND OF 4 CHILDREN, OLDEST BEING MICHAEL, A YOUNGER SISTER, EVGENIA,\u00a0WHO PASSED AWAY AS A TEENAGER, AND A YOUNGER BROTHER ALEKSEY, WHO CURRENTLY RESIDES IN LITHUANIA.\u2028<\/p>\n
HIS STAY IN KOMBARKA WAS SHORT AND AT THE AGE OF TWO MOVED TO WHAT WAS THEN KNOW AS BELORUS.\u2028\u00a0\u2028YOUNG VSEVOLOD ATTENDED SCHOOL IN VILNIUS, AND FREQUENTED “DUHOV MONASTERY”. DURING THE WAR HIS PARENTS ALONG WITH THIER SONS, IMMIGRATED TO GERMANY, (DRESDEN).<\/p>\n
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WAR, WITH THE FAMILY SEPARATED AND DISPLACED, HE FOUND HIS WAS TO CANADA IN 1949, AND LANDING A JOB IN RED LAKE, ONTARIO, WORKING IN THE GOLD MINES, TO PAY FOR HIS TRIP BY BOAT, TO CANADA.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u2028AFTER PAYING OFF HIS TRANSPORTATION DEBT, HE MADE HIS WAY TO TORONTO, WHERE HE MET FATHER JOHN DIACHINA, CHRIST THE SAVIOUR RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. TAUGHT RUSSIAN SCHOOL AND WAS ACTIVE IN THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL CLUB. FATHER VSEVOLOD ORGANIZED AND LED THE FIRST RUSSIAN SCOUT TROOP IN CANADA.\u2028<\/p>\n
EARLY 1950 HE GOT A JOB WITH MASSEY HARRIS, WHERE HE WORKED UNTIL HE TOOK EARLY RETIREMENT IN 1972. \u00a0IN 1952 HE MET GALINA GEORGEVNA JONOV, DAUGHTER OF DISPLACED RUSSIANS (FROM YUGOSLAVIA) AND WERE MARRIED IN APRIL 1953. THEY HAVE 2 SONS, LEONID MARRIED TO CHRISTINE AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN NATALIE AGE 20 AND A SON MICHAEL AGE 16. GEORGE,\u00a0 MARRIED\u00a0 TO ROBIN AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN MAX 13 AND KATYA 10.<\/p>\n
\u2028IN\u00a01972 BECAME A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PRIEST AT HOLY RESSURECTION CHURCH IN TORONTO FOR 25 YEARS AND LATER IN HAMILTON AT HOLY VEIL OF THE HOLY MOTHER RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.\u2028\u00a0\u2028FATHER VSEVOLOD ALSO SERVED AT LAKE SIMCOE, LONDON WINDSOR AND EVEN AT THE BULGARIAN CHURCH IN TORONTO, ON AN ON CALL\/ AS NEEDED\u00a0BASIS.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u2028FATHER VSEVOLOD RECIEVED A MITRE FROM THE BISHOP IN 2009.\u2028<\/p>\n
FATHER WAS ILL FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH CANCER AND WAS BED RIDDEN, AT HOME,\u00a0THE LAST 6 MONTHS. A TURN FOR THE WORST ON SUNDAY 22ND OF JANUARY, HE WAS RUSHED TO OAKVILLE TRAFALGAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AROUND 7 PM. FATHER VSEVOLOD PASSED AWAY\u00a0EARLY MONDAY MORNING ON JANUARY 23RD, 2012, WITH HIS WIFE BY HIS SIDE.<\/p>\n
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VSEVOLOD LEONIDOVICH MARTYSIEWICZ WAS BORN IN K\u0410MBARKA, RUSSIA, ON FEBRUARY 29TH, \u00a01920, TO FATHER LEONID\u00a0AND\u00a0MATYSHKA ALEXANDRA. THE SECOND OF 4 CHILDREN, OLDEST BEING MICHAEL, A YOUNGER SISTER, EVGENIA,\u00a0WHO PASSED AWAY AS A TEENAGER, AND A YOUNGER BROTHER ALEKSEY, WHO CURRENTLY RESIDES IN LITHUANIA.\u2028 HIS STAY IN KOMBARKA WAS SHORT AND AT THE AGE OF TWO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdiocese.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}