Name Serafima Meletieva | ||
Serafima Meleteva or Serafina Rosov (born 29 April 1886) was an abbess of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite, or, in other terminology belonged to the Greek Catholic Church and the Synod of the Russian traditions of the apostolate in the Russian Diaspora.
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Origin of her name
On her mundane name and origin, there are several versions, based on archival documents and letters from the archives of the publishing house "Life with Bohr" in Brussels.
Biography
Serafina Rosov was born in Stavropol, Russia on 29 April 1886 in an Orthodox family of the Old Style, being her father the physician Nicholas Rosov and his legal wife Julia. Seraphina Rosov in 1896 went to Saint Petersburg, and became Mother Superior in 1929. Bishop Paul Meletiou, gave her his sister, nowhere in the document refer names of their parents so Abbess Seraphim could be, or his half-sister, or just a "sister in Christ." Since 1944 in exile, in 1946, together with Bishop Paul Meletiou moved from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. Meleteva lived in the center "of the East-Christian center "at the publishing house" Life with Bohr "in Brussels participated in worship at the church of the Annunciation. She was buried in the cemetery Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels. Some documents of a personal nature, and books are available in the archives of the Abbess' Christian Russia in Seriate, Italy.