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==Life==
Fr. Dmitry’s father was Dmitry Dmitrievich Grigorieff, the pre-revolutionary vice-governor of Arkhangelsk, Vyatka, and Sakhalin, who in 1918 fled with his family to Riga, Latvia and later to England to escape the Russian Civil War. Fr. Dmitry was born in on [[May 14]],1919 while his family was in England. The family subsequently moved to Tokyo, Japan where the young Dmitry was baptized. After the Civil War ended in the early 1920’s, the young Dmitry with his family returned to Riga. In Latvia, Dmitry completed the Russian high school and entered the Orthodox Theological Institute.
As World War II enveloped the Baltic states, Dmitry, a British citizen, was evacuated to Australia, where during the years of 1943 and 1944 he served in the Pacific fleet of the British Merchant Marine. It was during this time that he married his wife, Galina. During the final year of the war he served in the United States with the Office of War Information in New York City.
