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Dimitri Nikolaevich Smirnov was born on March 7 in Moscow in the family of a priest. Great -grandfather, Archpriest Vasily Smirnov, was shot at the Butovo training ground, was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as a holy martyr. As a child, Dimitri Smirnov was fond of painting. From the age of 19 he worked as an artist and a movie operator, made educational and methodological films.

He worked as a designer artist, a watchman in kindergarten. Subsequently, he began to serve a reader in one of the Moscow temples. From his youth he talked with many prominent figures of the Orthodox Church, was blessed to the priesthood as the confessor of the Transfiguration desert of the Holy Trinity Monastery Valgunde, Latvia by Archimandrite Tavrion Batozsky. In the year, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary in Zagorsk near Moscow, now Sergiev Posad, graduated from it with an exterior in the year.

In the year, he also graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy. Dimitri Smirnov was ordained a priest on August 2. In the year, he was appointed rector of the Church of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh, Savelovsky district of Moscow, which was returned to the believers shortly before. He served in him to his death. Subsequently, he also became the abbot of a number of other churches in Moscow and the Moscow Region: the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Petrovsky Park, the martyr Vonifatia, the baptismal church of the Martyr Elisaveta, the Holy Martyr Vladimir Ambartsumov in the Concent Monastery, the Assumptions of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Myshkino, the Trinity of the Life -Giving in Goretov.

Also in the years he was the abbot of the Church of St. Nicholas Miroliki in Zeyitsky Moscow, and in the years - the temple of the Grandomotorious Barbara and the Monk Iliya Muromets in the village of Vlasikh, Moscow Region. Since the X, he was actively engaged in social activities, in the year he created the Orthodox gymnasium "Light", in the year - the Orthodox medical and educational center "Life" to counteract abortion.

He was the initiator of the creation and then the dean of the Orthodox Faculty of the Academy of Misted Forces of Strategic Purpose is now located in Balashikha, Moscow Region. He created Orthodox orphanages in Moscow and Myshkino near Moscow. In the year, the member of the Orthodox Center "Sliding".

He was the host of the programs at the Radonezh radio station and the SPA channel. He held a post until March 12. Since July 27, he was a member of the interlocal presence of the Russian Orthodox Church preparing materials for consideration on local cathedrals. In years he was a member of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, he includes the heads of synodal institutions.

From March to October, he was the first deputy chairman, and from October 2 to August 25 - the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood. Since August, he remained the honorary chairman of the commission. He repeatedly made media statements about the need to combat abortion, was an opponent of juvenile justice, surrogate motherhood, non -traditional sexual relations, criticized state policy in the field of family and childhood support as insufficient, and criticized the increase in retirement age, and in years - the Law on the prevention of family -free violence.

It was also known for other loud statements, in particular, that Islam, due to a larger number of young adherents, has more future than Christianity, and that women do not have to receive education. In the year, a great resonance received his statement "a consistent atheist must commit suicide" because "it makes no sense to live, study and fight" if only the burdock grows up after death.

" The author of the books "Pharisee hypocrisy" and "About Pharisee" was married. Daughter Maria - candidate of philological sciences, teacher of Moscow State University named after M. Younger Brothers: Nikolai Rod.