Vicar Bishop
On 6 February 1910 Benjamin was consecrated Bishop of Gdov, a vicar bishop of the diocese of St. Petersburg. Metropolitan Antonii (Vadkovskii) of St. Petersburg and Ladoga officiated at the installment in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
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“And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
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“They shifted a little, but not
to return my stare.”
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