July 30

A Bishop Who Found Himself in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Bishop John (Bulin) of Petseri in Estonia was killed on this day in 1941.

Nicholas Bulin was born into a workers’ family in today’s Estonia, which was then part of the Governorate of Livonia. In 1915, Nicholas graduated from the seminary in Riga and began his studies at Petrograd Theological Academy. Then, Nicholas Bulin became an officer in the Russian …