Fr Fotiy Huo served in Shanghai with Fr Elias Wen, then in Beijing and finally in the St Nicholas Cathedral in Harbin. Fr Fotiy was tall in stature, had a beautiful bass voice and was tortured in the Cultural Revolution.

According to Harbin municipal religious and Daoli district archives, Fr Fotiy was the ninth rector of St Sophia Church of Harbin.

Fr Fotiy also served as rector of the Holy Transfiguration Church of Harbin.

Korpusnoy Gorodok
(Military town, Harbin).
Fr. Ho with Nikolai
Klebansky, 1961.

From left: the future
Fr. Mikhail Klebansky,
Fr. Ho & parishioners, 1961.

In the front row
the children of
Fr. Fotiy Ho
(there are four
of them)

Fr. Fotiy outdoors