page_title: Germogen (Maximov)
section_title: Croatian Orthodox Church
hierarchical_section_title: Germogen (Maximov) / Croatian Orthodox Church
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Ante Pavelić, Andrija Artuković i Germogen
context_page_description: Metropolitan Germogen was bishop of Aksay, Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk, Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens, Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk, member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, the head of the Croatian Orthodox Church.
context_section_description: The Croatian Orthodox Church was established on 3 April 1942 by the Ustashe government of Ante Pavelić of the Independent State of Croatia.
  The final structure of this organisation was established in June 1942, and Germogen was named head of the Croatian Church on 2 June and enthroned at a ceremony presided over by Patriarch of All Romania Nicodim in the Church of the Holy Transfiguration in Zagreb on 7 June 1942 in presence of top officials of the Independent State of Croatia. 
  He chose a new name, Germogen, as metropolitan of Zagreb and Croatia. He took the ecclesiastical oath a day later. He was immediately condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and expelled from its Synod. Patriarch Germogen was, along with other leaders of his organisation, decorated by Pavelić with the Order for Merits.
caption: Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, minister Andrija Artuković and Germogen (1942)
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