Baptismal name: Vladimir
Rank: Archbishop
Place of birth: Moscow
Year of birth: 1897 (19th century)
Date of repose: December 14, 1966
Head of the Diocese of Chișinău: 1944–1947
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Education: Commercial School
Biography
Ieronim (Zaharov Vladimir Ivanovich) was born in 1897 in Moscow.
In 1916, he graduated from the Moscow Commercial School and was admitted to the university and the Institute of Experimental Psychology. He did not complete his higher education.
He lived in Moscow and was tonsured a monk on August 22 (Old Style), 1925.
On September 7 (Old Style), 1925, he was ordained a hierodeacon.
On September 21 of the same year, he was ordained a hieromonk at the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow.
In 1926, he served as parish priest of the church of a women’s monastery in the Diocese of Kostroma.
In 1928, he became parish priest of the Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Zagorsk, Moscow Diocese.
In 1930, he was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite.
On December 3, 1944, he was consecrated Bishop of Chișinău and Moldova.
From January 13, 1947, he served as Bishop of Ryazan and Kasimov.
From February 27, 1948, he was Bishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia.
On July 31, 1952, he became Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran.
In 1953, he temporarily administered the Dioceses of Orenburg and Penza.
On May 31, 1956, he was appointed Bishop of Orel and Bryansk.
On January 12, 1962, he was elevated to Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk.
On May 11, 1963, he was granted the right to wear the cross on the klobuk.
He reposed in the Lord on December 14, 1966.