Career
In 1939, before leaving for the front as a surgeon in the French army, he secretly professed monastic vows in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1943 he was tonsured and received the name of Antony. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany he worked as a doctor, and took part in the French Resistance.
After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the presbyterate and sent to Britain to serve as Orthodox Christian Chaplain of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius, a society established to foster understanding and friendship between the Orthodox and Anglican communions. In 1950 he was appointed vicar of the Russian Patriarchal parish in London.
In 1957 he was consecrated as Bishop, and as archbishop in 1962 in charge of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1963 he was appointed Exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe, and in 1966 was assigned the rank of Metropolitan bishop.
In 1974 by mutual agreement he was released from the function of Exarch, in order to devote himself more fully to the pastoral needs of the growing flock of his diocese. Between 1966 and 1986 he brought out six books on prayer.
In the summer of 2003 Bloom resigned as diocesan bishop. He died on 4 August 2003. His grave in the Brompton Cemetery, London, is visited by Christians and many others.
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