1910
The Metropolitan visits North America. Meets with Greek Catholic communities in the United States (August-October); attends twenty-first International Eucharistic Congress in Montreal (September); tours Ukrainian communities in Canada (October-November); returns to United States (November-December).


Metropolitan Andrey in Canada, 1910.








Dormition Church in Lviv, 1914. A homily which Metropolitan Andrey delivered here caused his imprisonment by tsarist authorities.

1914
World War I begins (July-August); tsarist Russian army invades Austrian Galicia; L'viv taken (3 September); the Metropolitan arrested (19 September).


1914-1917
The Metropolitan moved from L'viv to Kiev to Nizhnii Novgorod (September 1914); imprisoned in Kursk (October 1914-September 1916) and Suzdal' (September-December 1916); moved to Iaroslavl' (December 1916-March 1917).







1917
Revolution in the Russian Empire and the overthrow of the tsar (February/March). The Metropolitan released (8 March); proceeds to St. Petersburg to work among Russia's Catholics (March-July); briefly visits Kiev and Moscow (May), then returns to St. Petersburg where he convokes a synod and consecrates Bishop Leonid Fedorov (29-31 May). He leaves the Russian Empire (7 July) and returns home via Stockholm, Berlin, Constance, Freiburg, Lausanne, Innsbruck, and Vienna (26 August). Arrives in L'viv (10 September).


Metropolitan Andrey among the clergy in Moscow, 1917.




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