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==Life==
George Nicholaevich Voznesensky was born on [[March 22]], 1903 in Kursk, Russia into a family of a [[priest]], Father Nicholas Voznesensky and his wife Lydia Vasilievna. In 1909, his family moved to Blagoveschensk on the Amur River in Siberia. In 1920, George graduated from the local gymnasium. Later in 1920 in the midst of the Russian Civil War, his family moved to Harbin, Manchuria. In 1921, his mother died, and his father accepted [[tonsure]] as a [[monk]] with the name Dimitri. Dimitri later became Archbishop of HailarskHailar. He died in 1947 shortly after he repatriated to the Soviet Union.
Living in Harbin, George entered the Russo-Chinese Polytechnic Institute from which he graduated in 1927 as an electromechanical engineer. He then began studies in pastoral theology in what became the Theology Department of the University of St. Vladimir. In 1930, George was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]]. In 1931, George graduated from St. Vladimir University. Also in 1931, he was tonsured a monk with the name Philaret. In 1932, he was ordained a [[Hieromonk]]. In 1937, he was elevated to [[Igumen]] and to the rank of [[archimandrite]]. During this period he was also a professor of [[New Testament]], Pastoral Theology, and Homiletics at St. Vladimir University.
