On May 6, 2012, the First Hierarch of the “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” (ROAC), “Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal” Theodore (Gineevsky), was endowed with the title of “Metropolitan” and the right to wear two bishop’s panagias.
At a meeting of the Bishops' Council of the "Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church" (ROAC), held on January 23, 2012 in Suzdal, "Archbishop of Otradnensky and North Caucasus" Theodore (Gineevsky) was elected First Hierarch of the said non-canonical religious community with the title "Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal" ". The elevation of “Archbishop” Theodore to the rank of “Metropolitan” will take place on Bright Week of this year.
On January 16, 2012, at the 73rd year of his life, the First Hierarch of the “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” (ROAC), “Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir” Valentin (Rusantsov), died. The cause of his death was identified as progressive heart failure, post-infarction cardiosclerosis and severe diabetes mellitus.
On February 10, 2011, in fulfillment of the resolution of the Council of Bishops of the ROAC, the “bishop’s” consecration of “Archimandrite” Mark (Rassokhi) took place, in which eight “bishops” took part, led by the First Hierarch of the ROAC, “Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir” Valentin (Rusantsov). It is noteworthy that the newly ordained “hierarch” was given the title “Bishop of Armavir”, vicar of the North Caucasus diocese.
On February 4, 2011, the Council of Bishops of the non-canonical religious organization “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” (ROAC) was held in Suzdal, at which a decision was made to ordain two new “bishops”. The cleric of the Iveron Synodal Church of the ROAC, “Archimandrite” Trofim (Tarasov), was elected “Bishop of Simbirsk”, vicar of the Suzdal diocese...
A cleric of the Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, “hieromonk” Seraphim (Sibinin), was detained for drug possession.
“Archbishop” Theodore copied some fragments of his message from the Easter message of Archbishop Barsanuphius of Saransk and Mordovia for 2001, published on the official website of the Saransk-Mordovian diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate of Easter; sermon by Archpriest Vyacheslav Reznikov, published on the official website of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. However, it is most noteworthy that the First Hierarch of the ROAC included in his Easter message borrowings from heterodox authors: the Sermon “Easter of Victory,” authored by Baptist preacher Viktor Semenovich Ryaguzov, “Sermon on the Feast of Easter,” delivered by the preacher of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Brother Ramil, note by a black man neo-charismatic Sunday Adelaja, as well as fragments of a sermon by a Catholic monk from the Redemptorist order, Fr. Stanislav Podgursky CSsR.
The need to form an independent pseudo-church structure, claiming legal succession from the pre-revolutionary Orthodox Russian Church, prompted the leadership of the ROAC to conduct a number of hierarchal consecrations. In 2001, the Synod of the “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” decided to elevate Archbishop Valentin (Rusantsov) to the rank of metropolitan with the right to wear two panagias, which, according to schismatics, raised the status of the most schismatic organization to a metropolitan district. However, the wearer of the white hood not only did not increase the authority of the religious organization he created, but a year later attracted public attention to the ROAC with a huge scandal...
Among the numerous modern pseudo-church groups, the “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” is one of the most scandalous and odious. She attracted the close attention of the Russian public with her noisy deviation into schism in the early 1990s and her sex scandal in the early 2000s. and the no less loud scandal of the late 2000s associated with an attempt to retain control of churches that had been rejected into schism. A prerequisite for the emergence of the schismatic “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” can be considered the adoption on May 2/15, 1990 by the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR of the so-called “Regulations on free parishes”...
As of September 2009, the “bishopric” of the “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” consisted of the following “hierarchs”:
*Valentin (Rusantsov), "Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir"
*Theodore (Gineevsky), "Archbishop of Borisov and Otradnensky"
*Seraphim (Zinchenko), “Archbishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia”...
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and the Civil War in Russia, the united Greek-Russian Church was divided administratively - first by the front line, and then by the borders of the USSR - into two parts: the Church existing in the fatherland (later, as the persecution of Orthodoxy intensified, it went illegal and became the Catacomb ) and the Church Abroad (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - ROCOR). Separated forcibly by political circumstances, both parts of the Russian Church remained spiritually and mystically united: they commemorated the canonical church authority in the person of Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsky, and had communion in prayer and the sacraments. In addition, among the True Orthodox clergy and laity in Russia, the First Hierarchs of the ROCOR, Metropolitans Anthony, Anastasius and Philaret, enjoyed great authority. Having lost contact with their Bishops, the catacomb priests began to understand the First Hierarchs of the ROCOR at Divine Services, and if there was such an opportunity, they officially passed into its jurisdiction (for example, in 1975, a group of 12 catacomb priests who cared for several dozens of communities in Russia). The messages of the Councils of Bishops and the Synod of the ROCOR were distributed in the Catacomb Church, and the messages of the Bishops of the Catacomb Church, correspondence of hierarchs, etc. were published in the publications of the ROCOR.
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By the end of the 20s, the Russian GPU managed to break away from the persecuted Catacomb Church the two largest church groups - the Renovationist and Sergianist groups, which compromised with the atheists and split with the Russian Church. These groups were recognized as a schism by both parts of the Russian Church (both the holy new martyrs and the foreign episcopate). In 1943, at the height of the war, Stalin, for political purposes, united the remnants of the Renovationist and Sergian schismatic groups into the new official church of the USSR, which was given the name “Russian Orthodox Church” (ROC). To manage this structure, a special Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church was created, which included career NKVD officers. Formally, the ROC was headed by the head of the Sergian schism (whose name this schism bears) - Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), who five days after his “historic meeting” with Stalin became “Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.” However, the Patriarch could only be elected by a Local Council with the participation of all bishops (up to 150 hierarchs in 1943 were still languishing in prisons, camps and exile), representatives of the clergy and laity.
An extremely small group of bishops and clergy who recognized Metropolitan Sergius were given some of the churches closed in the 1930s and were allowed to open religious educational institutions and publish a magazine “for official use.” This is how the modern Moscow Patriarchate was formed, which gradually grew and, with the help of the authorities, took the place of the historical Russian Church in the minds of the Russian people.
Meanwhile, the true Russian Church - the Catacomb Church - remained persecuted. Almost its entire episcopate was in prisons and camps, and a significant part of the clergy was also there, who did not want to enter the Moscow Patriarchate. Already in the 30s, due to the absence of central church authority (the canonical Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Peter, was shot in 1937, but 12 years earlier he was deprived of the opportunity to govern the Church), movements formed among the Catacomb Christians, usually called the name of their bishop-confessors, for example: “Josephites” - named after Metropolitan Joseph (Petrov) of Petrograd, “Buevites” - the children of Bishop Alexy (Bui), etc.
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The ongoing persecution of the Catacomb Church in the USSR led to the fact that by the early 90s of the 20th century, the Russian Catacomb Church no longer had its own hierarchy. It is quite natural that the Catacomb Christians turned to the ROCOR, which still preserved the legitimate Russian hierarchy in the purity of faith. During the service, many catacomb clergy commemorated Metropolitan Philaret, and then Metropolitan Vitaly, the First Hierarchs of the ROCOR. The Josephite communities in St. Petersburg and the Northwestern Territory, as well as the “buevites” of the Voronezh region and the catacombs of the Moscow region were cared for by priest Mikhail Rozhdestvensky (+ 1988). Several priests, hieromonks and an archimandrite cared for the “Galynts” of the Vyatka region, Tatarstan, Mordovia and Chuvashia. The head of their branch, Archbishop Anthony (Galynsky-Mikhailovsky), died in Kyiv in 1976, leaving behind a small number of clergy and a large flock. The inept policy of the ROCOR in Russia led to the ordination in 1982 by foreign hierarchs of Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko), who was distrusted by the majority of the catacombs.
Only after the start of “perestroika” and after the fall of the Soviet regime, when the ROCOR began to open its legal parishes on Russian territory, was the trust of the catacombs in the Church Abroad restored. The first large parish to come under the jurisdiction of the Synod of the ROCOR and directly subordinate to Metropolitan Vitaly was the parish of the Tsar Constantine Church in Suzdal. Almost a year after his accession, on February 10, 1991, the rector of the parish, Archimandrite Valentin (Rusantsov), was ordained Bishop of Suzdal in Brussels. At this time, catacomb communities began to join the Russian Orthodox Free Church (ROC) (as the canonical structures of the ROCOR in Russia were called). At the same time, priests who have left the MP are accepted into their parishes through repentance. In Suzdal itself and the surrounding area, all the catacombs become, along with the flock of Bishop Valentin who left the MP, parishioners of the Tsar Constantine Cathedral and other churches of the Russian Orthodox Church. New communities and parishes are also being created. The distrust of the catacombs towards Archbishop Lazar, who looked after the “illegal” part of the Russian Orthodox Church, prompted them to turn to Bishop Valentin of Suzdal. As a rule, communities sent their trusted representatives to Suzdal in order to find out exactly what the Russian Orthodox Church, its hierarchy and clergy represented, and whether they really professed True Orthodoxy. Representatives of the “Buevsky” and “Josephite” communities of Voronezh and St. Petersburg come to Suzdal and join the Russian Orthodox Church. The current abbess of the Robe Monastery in Suzdal, schema-abbess Euphemia, came to Suzdal from the community of the Voronezh catacombs.
In 1992, a large number of catacomb communities of the “Galyns” of the Vyatka region joined the Russian Orthodox Church, and their priest, Archpriest Valentin (ordained in 1965 by Archbishop Anthony (Galynsky)) was tonsured a monk in 1997 and ordained in Suzdal as Bishop of Yaran. Catacomb nuns come to Suzdal from different places, for whom Bishop Valentin creates a monastery in honor of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (St. John was the spiritual father of St. Anthony (Galynsky) and maintained correspondence with him).
In 1991-93, catacomb workers from the Caucasus came to Suzdal. To care for the catacomb communities of the Caucasus and the South of Russia, the catacomb monk Seraphim, who labored for many years in the mountains of Abkhazia, was ordained Bishop of Sukhumi in 1994. The famous confessor (who spent 25 years in the camps) and organizer of catacomb parishes in Kuban and Ukraine, nun Seraphima (Sanina), comes to Suzdal and is appointed abbess of the Suzdal catacomb monastery in honor of St. John of Shanghai. Following her example, many catacomb communities in Ukraine and Belarus joined the Russian Orthodox Church. Later, in 1998, their Bishop was ordained for them - His Grace Hilarion Sukhodolsky.
Nuns, the spiritual children of the catacomb hieromonk Seraphim (Goloshchapov), move from the Kuban villages to Suzdal; one of them - Alexander's mother - is now abbess at the monastery of St. John of Shanghai.
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However, the rapid growth of the ROCOR was hindered by the uncanonical and provocative actions of some ROCOR bishops, which ultimately led to the discrediting of the ROCOR itself in Russia and to a conflict between the Synod and the Russian bishops. The reason for such actions of some foreign hierarchs was their illusions regarding the “genuine spiritual revival” in a distant and little-known Russia, as well as a fundamentally incorrect and contrary to the confession of the Catacomb Church view of the MP as an Orthodox Church captivated by atheists, or<мать-церковь>.
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As a result, the contradictions between the leadership of the Synod of the ROCOR and the Russian bishops, who adhere to the true Orthodox, catacomb positions, grew. The bishops of the Catacomb Church, who were under the jurisdiction of the ROCOR, Archbishop Lazar and Bishop Valentin, were unlawfully dismissed from their sees in 1993. After all their requests for a fair trial and restoration of the trampled Sts. The Synod of the ROCOR left the canons inconclusive; they were forced to administratively separate from the ROCOR, forming, on the basis of the decree of St. Patriarch Tikhon and the bodies of the Supreme Church Administration under him for No. 362 of November 20, 1920, autonomous self-government in March 1994. They ordained three more bishops for the Russian Church: Theodore, Seraphim and Agafangel.
A year later, after unsuccessful attempts to find an acceptable way of self-government of Russian parishes, on February 11/24, 1995, the Synod of the ROCOR uncanonically banned five Bishops of the Russian Church from serving in the priesthood. This prohibition was also illegal because it was carried out without the ecclesiastical court required by the canons. Thus, the Synod of the ROCOR made an attempt to usurp power over the Catacomb Russian Church, power that belongs only to the All-Russian Local Council. As a result, a split occurred between the Synod of the ROCOR and the Russian Church. The unity of the Russian and foreign parts of the Russian Local Orthodox Church - from 1921 to 1990 spiritual, and from 1991 to 1994 also administrative - was dissolved due to the fault of the Foreign Synod, which set a course for rapprochement with the MP and saw an obstacle in the face of its own Russian parishes. The illegal actions of the ROCOR hierarchs in relation to the Church in Russia brought the Foreign Synod itself to the brink of a canonical schism. At the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR in 1994, the “new course” of the ROCOR was officially proclaimed, which, in particular, was expressed in the conciliar acceptance of the ecumenical teaching of the Greek Metropolitan Cyprian and in communication with the official Serbian Patriarchate - a member of the ecumenical World Council of Churches.
In 1995, Archbishop Lazar and Bishops Benjamin and Agafangel returned to the ROCOR, and only three bishops remained in the ROC, headed by Archbishop Valentin.
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Meanwhile, as a result of constant meetings between Archbishop Mark of Berlin (ROCOR) and the leadership of the MP (in particular, with the Patriarch himself), an agreement was reached between the MP and the Synod of the ROCOR to simultaneously remove the priesthood from Bishop Valentin, who was an obstacle to the reunification of the ROCOR with the MP. This was done by the ROCOR in September 1996, by the MP in February 1997. The Russian bishops recognized these actions as having no canonical significance, since they were directed against clergy who were not members of the clergy of the ROCOR, and the MP could not and cannot be recognized as Church. Bishop Gregory (Grabbe) back in 1994, in his report to Metropolitan Vitaly, called such “prohibitions” and “defrocking” “unprecedented lawlessness.”
In October 1998, the Russian Orthodox Church was re-registered under the name "Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church" (ROAC). Currently, the ROAC episcopate includes 12 bishops. The head of the Church was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan in March 2001." history of the ROAC
"The Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (abbreviated as ROAC; until 1998 - the Russian Orthodox Free Church) is a religious association officially registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in October 1998; it has no communication with the Moscow Patriarchate; it is also not recognized by any of the local Orthodox Churches. It considers itself as the legal heir of the historical Orthodox Russian Church and the Kyiv Metropolis within the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In the Moscow Patriarchate it has the designation “Suzdal schism”.
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The basis for the emergence of the ROAC was the “Regulations on Free Parishes” adopted on May 15, 1990 by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which proclaimed the ROCOR’s course towards establishing its own (parallel to the ROC) church structures (dioceses, deaneries and parishes) within the USSR. In April 1990, Archimandrite Valentin (Rusantsov) of the Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, who had previously refused to fulfill the decree of Archbishop Valentin (Mishchuk) to transfer him to another city, transferred to the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad along with his parish, as a result of which, by the definition of the Holy Synod, the Russian Orthodox Church was banned from the priesthood.
Bishop Valentin, gradually distancing himself from the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR, on June 22, 1993, withdrew from subordination to the jurisdiction of the ROCOR, remaining with it “in prayerful unity and Eucharistic communion.” In March 1994, Valentin and Lazar (Zhurbenko), who had been caring illegally for members of the ROCOR in the USSR since 1982, switched to autonomous self-government and ordained three new bishops, creating the Supreme Ecclesiastical Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the winter of 1994, a temporary reconciliation was reached with the ROCOR, but on February 24, 1995, the ROCOR Synod banned all 5 bishops from serving and declared the Vladimir-Suzdal See widowed. At a meeting on March 14, 1995, the Temporary Supreme Church Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to recognize the determinations of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in relation to the Russian Orthodox Church as “contrary to the holy canons and not to recognize them as valid.”
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In June 1995, the Supreme Church Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church was restored. It was headed by Archbishop Valentin, whose diocese in Suzdal became the center of the new church. In October 1998, the old name “Russian Orthodox Free Church” was replaced by ROAC during registration. According to Mikhail Ardov, the word “autonomous” had to be added to the name (“the Ministry of Justice slapped this on us”) since the name “Russian Orthodox Church” was assigned to the Moscow Patriarchate.
In 2001, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church decided to elevate Archbishop Valentin (Rusantsov) to the rank of metropolitan with the right to wear two panagias.
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In 2001, a group led by Archpriest Andrei Osetrov broke away from the ROAC, who became one of the ideologists of the persecution of Metropolitan Valentin. In 2004, Bishop Gregory (Abu-Assal) disobeys the demands of the Synod and creates the ROAC in America. Thus, by the beginning of 2006, most of the parishes in foreign countries (USA, Bulgaria, England) were lost, and, in most cases, this was due to the incompetent personnel policy of the metropolitan.
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In May 2007, a new, alternative center was formed in Bezhetsk (Tver region) - the “Provisional Church Council” (VTsS ROAC) under Bishop Sevastian (Zhatkov) of Chelyabinsk, which coordinates the activities of a significant part of the parishes. The Synod of the ROAC did not recognize this body, and canonical punishments were applied to its members, including the anathematization of Sebastian.
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On November 5, 2008, a final split occurred in the ROAC, as a result of which Sebastian (Zhatkov) and Ambrosy (Epifanov) transformed the “Provisional Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” into a new non-canonical religious organization, which received the name “Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” and on the next day, hegumen Gregory (Lurie), banned by Valentin (Rusantsov), was ordained “Bishop of Petrograd and Gdov.” The latter was elected Chairman of the “Bishops’ Conference of the ROAC.”
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On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region, at the request of the Federal Property Management Agency, decided to confiscate 13 churches from the ROAC due to the lack of an agreement for their use.
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In October 2010, three of the 11 priests that the ROAC had in Suzdal and the region moved to the Moscow Patriarchate."
The head of the church is the Metropolitan.
Brief history of the church
The jurisdiction began in July 1993, when Archbishop Lazar (who cared for the former catacomb parishes) and Bishop Valentin (who cared for the parishes that joined from the Russian Orthodox Church and registered as the “Russian Orthodox Free Church”), who managed the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in the post-Soviet space, were removed from their departments . After their requests to reconsider the decision were not heard, in March 1994 the bishops switched to autonomous self-government and ordained three new hierarchs, and the Supreme Ecclesiastical Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church was created. Most of the catacombs from the “Victorian” branch became part of this jurisdiction. In the winter of 1994, a temporary reconciliation was reached with the ROCOR, and on February 24, 1995, the ROCOR Synod banned all 5 bishops from serving, which again provoked a schism among the post-Soviet parishes of the ROCOR. In June 1995, the Supreme Ecclesiastical Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church was restored, this time headed by Archbishop Valentin, whose diocese in Suzdal became the center of the new jurisdiction. In October 1998, the old name "Russian Orthodox Free Church" during registration (at the request of the authorities) was replaced by the "Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church" (ROAC). In 2001, a group led by Archpriest Andrei Osetrov broke away, who became one of the ideologists of the persecution of Metropolitan Valentin. In 2002, a trial took place over M. Valentin, accusing him of pedophilia (he was convicted, but the conviction was subsequently dropped), which was accompanied by active persecution in the media, but this did not affect the size of the church. In Suzdal alone, the ROAC had 19 churches, six more parishes operated in the Vladimir region, Suzdal is the spiritual center of the church.
The church includes a large number of former catacomb parishes (a significant number of them remained illegal), as well as some that transferred from the Russian Orthodox Church. The Sukhodolsk diocese unites believers in Belarus and Ukraine, 12 parishes are united into an autonomous church in Latvia, at the beginning of 2001 parishes appeared in the USA, and in 2003 one parish in Bulgaria (subsequently the number of Bulgarian parishes increases). In 2004, the American Bishop Gregory (Abu-Assal) did not comply with the Synod's demands to explain his behavior and communication with him was interrupted. Gregory created the ROAC in America. From 2005 to 2008, the formation of a new jurisdiction, the Bishops' Conference of the ROAC, formed around Father Gregory (Lurie), was delayed. In 2007, a wave of church persecution began. In 2007, a trial began, the purpose of which is to take away from the church the churches that were taken over by it in the early 90s. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate 13 churches from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church. By October 2009, 14 churches had been confiscated from the church in Suzdal and its environs. In 2010, the courts took away six more churches located in the Vladimir region from the church, and in October 2010, three priests from the region transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate. In January 2012, the first hierarch of the church, M. Valentin, died, and on May 31, 2012, the court decided to transfer the relics of St. Euthymius and Euphrosyne of Suzdal to the Federal Property Management Agency, and for failure to comply with the decision and refusal to transfer the relics (which is regarded as an administrative offense) against M. Theodore criminal prosecution, fines are issued to the church. On January 24, 2013, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga-Vyatka District overturned previous decisions to confiscate the relics, leaving them in the possession of the church. However, on August 30, 2013, the bailiff service broke into the Iveron Synodal Church during a service and used force to try to seize the relics of the saints, Saints Euthymius and Euphrosyne.
On the territory of Russia there are 55 parishes and a number of catacomb communities, several parishes and communities in Ukraine and Belarus, a diocese in Latvia, five parishes in the USA (three of them English-speaking).
Supreme Church Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church, Head
Lazar (Zhurbenko) (March - winter 1994)
Valentin (Rusantsov) (June 1995 - 2001)
First Hierarch
Valentin (Rusantsov), metropolitan (2001 - January 16, 2012)
Theodore (Gineevsky), (Metropolitan since May 6, 2012), (January 23, 2012 -
Bishops:
Theodore (Gineevsky), Archbishop of Borisov and Saninsky (March 19, 1994 - January 23, 2012), Archbishop of Suzdal and Vladimir (January 23, 2012 -
Seraphim (Zinchenko), Archbishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia (March 20, 1994 -
Victor (Kontuzorov), Archbishop of Daugavpils and Latvia (21 June 1995 -
Hilarion, Bishop of Sukhodolsky (1998-2001), bishop. Smelyansky (2001-
Timofey (Sharov), Bishop of Orenburg and Kurgan (November 24, 2000 -
Jacob (Antonidiadi), Bishop of Sukhodolsky (February 10, 2008 -)
Irinarch (Nonchin), Bishop of Tula and Bryansk (November 24, 2002 -
Andrey (Maklakov), Bishop of Pavlovsk, Vicar of Suzdal (governing parishes in the USA) (June 21, 2006 - July 18, 2013), Archbishop of Pavlovsk and Rockland (governing parishes in the diaspora) (July 18, 2013 -
Trofim (Tarasov), Bishop of Simbirsk, Vicar of Suzdal (February 6, 2011 -
Mark (Rassokha), Bishop of Arzamas, Vicar of Suzdal (February 8, 2011 - January 23, 2012), Bishop of Armavir and the North Caucasus (January 23, 2012 -
Bishops who previously belonged to the church:
Valentin (Rusantsov), Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir (March 1994 - January 16, 2012)
Anthony (Grabbe), Bishop at rest in the United States (August 28, 2001 - September 12, 2005) (deceased)
Geronty (Ryndenko), Bishop of Sukhodolsky (February 6, 2001 - February 1, 2008) (deceased)
Anthony (Aristov), Bishop of Yaran and Vyatka (May 24, 1999 - March 1, 2009) (deceased)
Alexander (Mironov), Bishop of Kazan and Mari (April 1995 - November 1997)
Arseny (Kiselev), Bishop of Tula and Bryansk (April 16, 1995 - summer 1996)
Gregory (Abu-Assal), Bishop of Denver and Colorado (December 2, 2001 - July 22, 2004) (until October 18, 2002 - metropolitan suffragan, from June 2004 archbishop)
Sebastian (Zhatkov), Bishop of Chelyabinsk (July 17, 2003 - February 17, 2007)
Ambrose (Epifanov), Bishop of Khabarovsk (November 26, 2000 - 2004)
Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
Tsar Constantine Cathedral (Suzdal)
In April 1990, the Tsarekonstantinovsky parish left the ROC and was accepted under the omophorion of the ROCOR. In June 1995, with the final separation of the ROAC from the ROCOR, the Tsar Constantine Church became the cathedral of the church. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC. On August 19, 2009, the last liturgy was held in the cathedral, and on August 20, the temple was handed over to federal authorities.
Rector Metropolitan Valentin (Rusantsev) (April 1990 -?) [until February 10, 1991 archimandrite, until 1994 bishop, until March 15, 2001 archbishop]
Archbishop Theodore (Gineevsky) (?-
Serving: Subdeacon Andrey Smirnov (2001
Protodeacon Sergius Slonov (2001
Feofan (Areskin) (autumn 2001 -
Parish of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (Suzdal)
The temple was built in 2000. The rector is Bishop Irinarh (Nonchin)
Parish of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian (Suzdal)
The temple with a chapel in the name of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women was built in 1725, in 1990 it was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and in June 1995 it became part of the Russian Orthodox Church. The community has about a hundred regular parishioners, as well as occasional out-of-towners. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC.
Abbots:
Abbot Nikolai (Potapkin) (1st, 199* -199* died)
Hieromonk Trofim (Tarasov) (since November 14, 2001 hegumen) (199*-
Parish of St. Antipas (Suzdal)
The Church of St. Antipas was transferred to the ROAC in 1992; in 1994-94, extensive restoration work was carried out. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC; on September 3, 2009, the church was sealed by the Federal Bailiff Service.
Assumption Church (Suzdal)
The rector is Hieromonk Alexander (Inkov), serves as subdeacon Alexy Chesnokov, (from April 20, 2003 deacon, until 2004). On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC.
Cross St. Nicholas Church (Suzdal)
On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC; on September 3, 2009, the church was sealed by the Federal Bailiff Service.
Church of St. Lazar (Suzdal)
It was transferred to the community in 1994. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC; on September 3, 2009, the church was sealed by the Federal Bailiff Service.
Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (Suzdal)
It was transferred to the community in 1994. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC.
Church of St. Boris and Gleb (Suzdal)
The temple was transferred to the ROAC in 2000, rector Archpriest Alexy Chesnokov (2004-
Church of the Apparition of the Mother of God (Suzdal)
Temple, rector Archpriest Valentin Nonchin. On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC.
Temple in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Suzdal)
On February 5, 2009, the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region decided to confiscate the temple from the ROAC.
Temple-chapel in honor of the Holy Blessed and Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir (at the Znamensky cemetery, Suzdal)
Parish of St. Basil the Great (Borisovskoe village)
The temple (closed after the revolution) was handed over to believers in 1991 (originally to the parish of the Russian Orthodox Church), and was renovated at their expense. About 80 parishioners. The rector is Archpriest Arkady Makovetsky (dean of the Suzdal region), since 1993. For 2009 - Archbishop Theodore of Borisov and Otradnensky.
Church of St. St. George the Victorious (Krapivye village)
Temple, rector priest Valery Golovkin, as of 2009 - archpriest Arkady Makovetsky
Church of St. Simeon the Stylite (Omutskoe village)
Hegumen Feofan (Areskin) (abbot) (up.2005)
Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist (pavlovskoe village)
Hieromonk Simon (Koretsky), abbot since July 7, 2003; for 2009 the rector is Archpriest Andronik Kondratyuk.
Temple of Alexander Nevsky (Ves village)
Rector Archpriest Andronik Kondratyuk, as of 2009 - Archimandrite Evfimy (Karakozov)
Temple of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael in Khoneh (Ivanovskoe village)
Rector Archimandrite Evfimy (Karakozov)
Church of St. George the Victorious (Krapivye village)
Hegumen Feofan (Areskin) (abbot) (up.2009)
Community (village Sanino, Petushinsky district, Vladimir region)
there was a temple captured
Parish of St. Stefan (village Kideksh, Vladimir region)
Left the ROCOR at the time of the formation of the ROAC (June 1995) -.
Rector Archpriest Andrei Osetrov (June 1995 - May 2, 2001).
On May 2, 2001, Father Osetrov left the ROAC along with the parish and the church, and began a fight with his former first hierarch (Metropolitan Valentin) (mainly in the press). For a year he remained an independent priest, and on May 2, 2002 he joined the Russian Orthodox Church and was re-ordained to the priesthood.
Parish in the name of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (Yaroslavl)
It has its own temple. The rector is Archpriest Nikolai Kobychev.
Parish in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Trestna village, Tver region)
The rector is Hieromonk Sergius (Mironov). In 2004 he joined from the Altai Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Divine services were held in a former public building; the community also received a pre-revolutionary parish house. In the spring of 2009, he re-joined the Russian Orthodox Church and moved to the Borisoglebsky Monastery (Torzhok, Tver Diocese).
Parish of St. John of Shanghai (village of Rashkino, Tver region)
The rector is Archpriest Vladimir Abolentsev. There is a prayer house, the community was registered on February 13, 1995.
Parish of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas and all New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (Moscow)
The parish was created in the summer of 1993, when Archpriest Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov transferred from the Russian Orthodox Church to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. At the Golovinsky Cemetery in Moscow, a building (formerly a hall for funeral services) was purchased and converted into a church. The parish left the ROCOR at the time of the formation of the ROAC (June 1995).
Archpriest Mikhail Ardov (summer 1993 -
Archpriest Mikhail Makeev (- February 4, 2004) (in the TOC of Cyprus)
Protodeacon Alexy Sokolov (from the Russian Orthodox Church MP) (1996- (deacon, died 2004)
Hieromonk Arkady Ilyushin (200* - ?) (subdeacon; monk from March 21, 2003, hierodeacon from March 22, 2003, hieromonk from March 23, 2003)
priest Roman Pavlov (January 19, 2002 - February 4, 2004) (deacon since January 18, 2002) (In the TOC of Cyprus)
there were several more registered priests
Parish website (Russian)
Parish of St. Tsarevich-Martyr Alexy (Mytishchi)
exists since 1993, cared for by a catacomb priest.
priest Oleg Borodenkov (deacon from March 9, 2003, priest from March 22, 2003 -
Holy Trinity Monastery (village Ostrovo, near Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow region)
Rector - Archimandrite Anthony
Hieromonk David, several hierodeacons. Seraphima, eldest in the women's monastery (schema-nun, abbess since January 20, 2002).
Parish of St. Ksenia of Petersburg (Novaya Kupavna, Moscow region)
Priest Andrei Valevsky (March 2002 -
The community joined in March 2002 from the Russian Orthodox Church. On July 14, 2002 the parish was registered. Construction of the temple began immediately on the private plot of Father Valevsky. Despite the attempts of the authorities to prevent construction by judicial methods, six years later the temple was completed and on June 7, 2008, Archbishop Theodore performed the rite of great consecration.
Parish s.p. Grand Duchess Elizabeth (St. Petersburg)
The parish joined on September 14, 1999 (withdrew from the ROCOR).
Rector Hieromonk Gregory (Lurie) (September 19, 1999 - (Vasily Lurie, deacon since 19, priest since September 21, 1999, Hieromonk Gregory since April 13, 2000, abbot since February 27, 2005)
Served Fr. Feofan (September 21, 1999 - autumn 2001) (transferred to Suzdal) (Theodosius (Areskin) (hierodeacon from September 21, 1999, monk Theophanes from April 13, 2000), serves as hieromonk Daniel (Elkind) (/joined from the MP/ February 9, 2005 -
Marfa (Senina), nun since June 2, 2004.
in 1999-2001 the service was held in the house church (icon of the Mother of God “Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows”), since 2001 in the newly built church
July 20, 2005 Met. Valentin prohibited Fr. from serving. Gregory (for promoting name-glorification), however, Father Gregory did not recognize this prohibition and continues to serve as rector of the parish (in fact, not subordinating to Metropolitan Valentin, but considering himself a real clergyman of the ROAC).
Parish website (Russian)
Parish in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Consolation in sorrows and sorrows" (St. Petersburg)
In 1999, the “Orthodox Education Center” joined the ROAC, which has an equipped home church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows.” In 1999-2001, Father Gregory Lurie served there; after he moved to his own church in 2001, the community invited the Gatchina priest, Father. Alexey Lebedev, who serves in the church to this day. The community (together with Gatchinskaya) has 40 adults.
Community of St. New Martyr Maria of Gatchina (Gatchina)
After the collapse of the ROCOR community of St. Alexander Nevsky in January 2001, fragments of the former community (having visited Suzdal and seeing the “foreign” spirit there, joined the ROAC) in the winter of 2001 formed a new community - St. Maria Gatchinskaya. After the ordination of the priest, a group of catacombs (the children of Father Mikhail Rozhdestvensky), who had previously maintained relations with the Bishop of the ROAC Seraphim (Zinchenko), joined the community. A room for holding services in Gatchina is being sought, but for now they are being held in the premises of the parish of the icon of the Mother of God “Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows.” The community (both parishes) numbers 40 adults. O. Alexy Lebedev, deacon (April 7-15, 2001), priest (April 15, 2001-
monk Philaret (until November 21, 2001 - Hierodeacon Nikon).
Parish of the Archangel Michael (Volgograd)
Until 2001, there was a small group of believers (who transferred from the ROCOR). On July 12, 2001, Father Viktor Ulyanov and a group of believers (who were expelled from their church) were received into communion from the Russian Orthodox Church. The active core of the community is approximately 40 people. Rector of Victor Ulyanov (2001-)
house temple
Parish of the Holy New Martyrs (Volgograd)
The parish was registered in December 2003. Rector O Vadim Bukatin
house temple
Parish of St. Olga (Zheleznovodsk)
The community came under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Free Church (Bishop Valentin) in December 1992. In June 1995, with the final separation of the ROAC from the ROCOR, he remained under the omophorion of Bishop Valentin (ROAC).
The rector is Archpriest Roman Novakovsky, serves as Archpriest Georgy Novakovsky (dean of the Stavropol district), Archpriest Anastasy Skalsky (deacon from September 14, 1994 - August 19, 1995, priest from August 19, 1995 - 2009, transferred to Otradnoye).
The community had an independently built church, which, after long legal battles, was taken away from the community, and in April 2006, services in it stopped (at the first prayer outside the church, in a private house, 76 people participated). Now he prays in the converted attic of a private house.
Parish of the Church of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir (village of Kursavka, Andropovsky district, Stavropol Territory)
In June 1999 Fr. Andrei Fedyunin and part of the parishioners of St. Michael's Church transfer from the Russian Orthodox Church to the ROAC. Since 2001, they have been trying to evict the abbot from the apartment he occupied.
Community of the New Martyr Arseny of Serpukhov (Serpukhov)
February 4, 2004 community omophorion of Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the TOC of Cyprus
Hieromonk Nikolai (Pashkov) (ROCMP) (up.2000 -?)
Priest Roman Pavlov, ministered to the community (- February 4, 2004)
house temple.
be part of a community from the city of Tarusa (Kaluga region), located 30 km away.
Parish of St. Panteleimon (Votkinsk, Udmurtia)
The rector is Archpriest Valery Eltsov. O. Valery Eltsov moved from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1995 with his church of St. Panteleimon. On March 12, 1996, the temple was captured with the help of riot police. Father Valery cares for two communities in Votkinsk (one of them has a church building), and in the village of Novoe in Udmurtia.
Community named after Holy Trinity (village Ivanovka, Orenburg province)
There is a small wooden temple. Rector Bishop Timofey
Community named after Holy Trinity (Mochegai village, Orenburg province)
Rector Bishop Timofey
The arrival of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God (Krasnaya Gorka village, Orenburg province)
The rector is Priest Maxim Korablev. The prayer room is located in the village club, and was leased by the administration to a ROAC priest for 10 years.
Community (Oktyabrskoye village, Orenburg province)
The rector is Hieromonk Vissarion (Varyukhin), who joined from the Russian Orthodox Church MP in 200*.
Community of St. John the Baptist (Kirov)
Community (Kurgan)
Archpriest Anatoly Manakov. After a fire in the building (2006), where the community served, Father Anatoly was appointed priest for some time. in Zlatoust, continues to care for the Kurgan community.
Community of the Resurrection of Christ (Kirovo village, Mishkinsky district, Kurgan region)
rector priest Seraphim Svetlichny. there is a house of worship.
Community of St. John the Baptist (Armavir, Krasnodar region)
Community in honor of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God (Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory)
A small brick temple on the outskirts of the city. In 2008 the community was in the name of the Holy Trinity. Rector Fr. Alexy Gorin (- March 9, 2008), serves as priest Alexy Dronkin, priest Mikhail Dolgopolov
Church of St. Equal to the Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir (Kusavka, Stavropol Territory)
O. Andrey Fedyunin
Parish of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (stanitsa Otradnaya, Krasnodar region)
Rectors: Mitred Archpriest Nikolai Khirny (- November 14, 2009), Archbishop Theodore (Gineevsky) (2009 -; assistant rector Archpriest Anastasy Skalsky (2009 -
The parish was formed in the mid-90s by Archpriest Nikolai, who joined from the Russian Orthodox Church. The temple was converted from a former residential building and consecrated on November 4, 2002. Among the parishioners, about 200 people, there are many representatives of the Cossacks, from which both the first rector and Archbishop Theodore come.
Parish of St. Archangel Michael (Sargazy/Yuzhny Priisk, Chelyabinsk region)
Serves as bishop. Sevastinan (Zhatkov) (November 24, 2001 - December 23, 2001 and 2007 -)
Abbot Father Proclus (Vasiliev) (December 9, 2001 - May 1, 2007) (prior to tonsure on December 3, 2003, Father Alexey Vasiliev, abbot from October 13, 2004)
O. Theodore (Gadelshin) (December 9, 2001 -) (deacon until December 4, 2003)
Father Vitaly (Belonosov) (February 12, 2004 - (deacon until July 7, 2005)
Deacon Evgeniy Anufriev (July 7, 2005 -
In fact, the parish of Chelyabinsk (the village is located 20 km from the city, and only in it there is a community). In fact, it began to form around Father Alexy Vasiliev and Deacon Theodore, who began serving at home on June 18, 2000 (Ig. Sebastian was in prison at that time), and in the fall of 2000 they stopped commemorating the patriarch and the ruling bishop, effectively leaving the MP ( serving the liturgy and receiving the spare gifts). On March 14, 2001, Ig. Sevastian, released from prison, joined them. On October 28, 2001, services began in the home church of St. Michael in the village of Sargazy. On November 24, 2001, Ig. Sebastian (soon appointed rector in the city of Chrysostom) was accepted into the clergy of the ROAC, and on December 9, 2001, Father Alexei and Deacon Theodore. Parishioners came to services on a specially hired bus; the financial situation of the parish was very difficult. In 2002-2006, the community tried unsuccessfully to register three times. At the beginning of 2007, the community broke off relations with M. Valentin. A big blow for the community was the death of Abbot Proclus in a car accident in 2007; after his death, Bishop Sebastian began serving in the church again. The parish numbers a couple of hundred believers.
Community of St. Vmch. George (Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region)
Sevastinan (Zhatkov) (rector) (from ROCMP) (December 3, 2001 - January 29, 2007 -) (abbot; archimandrite from October 26, 2002, bishop from July 17, 2003)
Mitrofan (Koshevoy), monk, from July 6, 2003 hierodeacon, from July 18, 2003 hieromonk, later tonsured into the mantle named after Kirill (later went into the world and abandoned monasticism).
O. Oleg Amelin (2006 - January 29, 2007 - August 2009)
O. Sergius Sidorevich (deacon in 2001-2007; in 2002 for some time he went to the Greek Old Calendarists) (July 21, 2007 - .
On December 3, 2001, most of the parishioners of the Church of St. George (which was registered in the name of its ktitor Yu. Nikitin and at one time was spiritually nourished by Hester Sebastian) transferred from the Moscow Patriarchate to the ROAC, and this community managed to preserve the temple. Deacon Sergius also transferred. On December 23, 2001, the first liturgy is celebrated. In 2006, a conflict between Bishop Sebastian and the center in Suzdal began. Soon Father Anatoly Manakov was transferred to Chrysostom, and he also began to have a conflict with Bishop Sebastian. As a result, Bishop Sevastin prohibits Father Anatoly from serving, and Bishop Sevastian himself (who accepted Father Oleg from the MP) is prohibited by the Synod of Bishops of the ROAC. The community splits into two parts - the faithful to Suzdal, led by Father Anatoly (4 families; for them, Father Sergius is soon ordained priest, since Father Anatoly, although he visits Chrysostom periodically, does not live there permanently) and the faithful bishop . Sebastian (with the temple of Yu.N. Nikitin and Father Oleg, several dozen faithful, several hundred people come to Epiphany and for holy water). In the spring of 2009, the owner of the temple, Yu. Nikitin and Father Oleg, left the subordination of Bishop Sebastian and unsuccessfully tried to reunite with the Synod of Bishops in Suzdal. Having failed, in August 2009 the owner of the temple Nikitin, together with his family and the temple, joined the Synod of Vladimir Diomede (hieromonk Spiridon accepted them), Father Oleg was left without a flock and clergy.
Community (Ekaterinburg)
A small group of believers, not forming a parish, cared for by the bishop. Sevastinan (Zhatkov)
Community (Perm)
A small group of believers, not forming a parish, cared for by the bishop. Sevastinan (Zhatkov)
Parish (village Bogoroditskoye, Perm region)
Rector Fr. Vasily Shishkin, who transferred from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2003 (previously he served in the same village for 9 years), equipped a house church in his house.
Community of St. App. Peter and Paul (Eltsovka village, Altai Territory)
Community of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God (Khabarovsk)
The rector is Archpriest Nikolai Spizhevoy (joined the Russian Orthodox Church in January 2007). Archpriest Dimitry Gorbunov and Priest Evgeny Savin are serving. There is a temple.
Parish of St. Nikolai (Krasnaya Rechka village, Khabarovsk district)
Parish of the Albazin Icon of the Mother of God (village of Bychikha, Khabarovsk district, Khabarovsk Territory)
Parish of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Telman settlement, Jewish Autonomous Region)
Community in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" (Yakutsk)
Parish of the Resurrection of the Lord (Ulan-Ude)
In 2000, Fr. left the Russian Orthodox Church with a scandal (he accused the dean of immoral behavior and was fired for his staff). Gennady, one of the most respected priests of Ulan-Ude, his children are mainly Russian intelligentsia. Rector - Archpriest Gennady Komarov (2000 -
Parish of St. Gennady Novgorodsky (Nikolaevsk-on-Amur)
Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Synodal Metochion of the ROAC (village of Sovetka, Neklinovsky district, Rostov region)
Abbot Hegumen Artemy (Smitchenko)
There is a temple, the painting of the vaults of which was completed in 2009, and a church house is being built nearby.
Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (village of Lazovichi, Surazhsky district, Bryansk region)
Rector Father Viktor Zemlyakov (2004 -
The parish has a church located in a former store. There are about 30 people... Served by Father Vitaly Pavlyuchenko (December 3, 2006 - (deacon December 2-3, 2006). The parish was officially registered only in February 2009.
Parish of the Presentation of the Mother of God into the Temple (Dalisichi village, Surazhsky district, Bryansk region)
Rector Father Mikhail Dudarev (2004 -
The community converted the wooden building of the former village council into a temple. The community numbers about 50 people.
Parish of the Church of St. Elijah (Trubchevsk, Bryansk region)
The community that restored the Church of St. Elijah at the end of 1991, together with its rector, left the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1995, the community remained under the omophorion of Metropolitan Valentin. From the very beginning, the authorities tried to take the temple away from the community (these attempts almost ended in success in 2007, the temple was even temporarily sealed and they were going to put it up for auction), Rector Father Vladimir Kovtun
Father Alexander Tovkalo (until December 4, 2006 - deacon), Deacon Viktor Chvikov (December 4, 2006-.
Parish in honor of the Kaluga Icon of the Mother of God (Lokot, Bryansk region)
Stone church built by deacon Viktor Chvikov
Parish (village Desyatukha, Bryansk region)
Rector Fr. Vladimir Gulyaev
Local authorities handed over the dilapidated and closed temple. On April 7, 2008, the temple was transferred to the Bryansk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP.
Priests
In the Bryansk region, at the end of 2004, priests Mikhail Dudarev and Viktor Zemlyakov moved from the Russian Orthodox Church MP; in February 2005, Hieromonk Oleg (Eliseev) joined (from the Holy Dormition Svensky Monastery), the three of them care for 6 communities.
John Mamalyga, (ROCMP), since October 28, 2003 deacon, since October 30, 2003 priest
Hieromonk Daniel (Elkind), (ROCMP), February 9, 2005 (formerly in Nizhny Novgorod)
Ukraine
Temple in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Smila)
Bishop Hilarion (rector)
Cathedral in the name of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg (Sukhodol)
In addition to the Cathedral, there are three more chapels in Sukhodol; on the territory of the temple there is a chapel of the Life-Giving Spring with a holy chalice, a baptistery and a building for monastics.
Rector Bishop Gerontius (-February 1, 2008), Jacob (Antonidiadi/Antonov), (archimandrite until February 10, 2008)
Hieromonk Boniface (1995 - (from June 26, 2005 hegumen) Priest Alexander Selikhov (June 26, 2005-
St. Vladimir's Church (Daugavpils)
Victor, Archbishop of Daugavpils and Latvia
USA and Bulgaria
Church of St. Nicholas (Elmwood, New Jersey, USA) (December 24, 2001 -
Archpriest Vladimir Shishkov (December 24, 2001 - 2005)
Bishop of Pavlovsk, Andrey (Maklakov) (Archpriest Mikhail Maklakov from December 2, 2003 - February 15, 2004; tonsured a monk on February 15, 2004; abbot until June 21, 2006)
Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA)
priest Photius Roseboro (2004 - The service is held in English.
Parish of St. Peter Aleut (Abitha Springs, Louisiana, USA).
Parish of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
priest Sergius Serzhanov (received from the ROCOR (Agafangel) in March 2008 -
Parish of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary (Madison, Tennessee, USA)
priest John Mahan. Service in English.
Parish of Christ the Savior (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)
priest Isaac Henke. Service in English.
St. Sophia Parish (Hobart, Indiana, USA)
Monastery of St. Barbarians (New Jersey)
Archimandrite Ephraim (Bertolette)
community (Elin Pelin, Bulgaria)
Parish of St. Michael the Archangel (Bagnoregio Viterbo, Italy)
The temple is located in the courtyard of the abbot's house in a garage. The rector is Archpriest Ambrose Cetta (ordained a priest in 2004 at the Milan Synod), the community numbers 10-15 people. The parish was officially admitted into communion on January 9, 2009.
Former parishes and communities of the ROAC::
Parish of St. Basil of Ryazan (Ryazan)
the parish joined at the beginning of 2001 from the ROCOR. In 2002 he joined the Moscow Patriarchate.
priest Sergius Evchik (ROCOR) (April 10, 2001 - 2002)
Temple in honor of the Epiphany.
Hierodeacon Damian (Akimov), November 15, 2001 monk, November 18, 2001 - hieromonk, community in Crimea (then independent, OPC, AOC, etc.).
Mission in Argentina (Parish in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God) (2004 - 2011)
priest Silouan Dignac (22 February 2005 - 22 June 2011). With his arrival in 2011, the priest came under the jurisdiction of the RTOC.
Holy Dormition Skete and Parish (Buena Vista, Colorado, USA) (beginning 2001 - July 22, 2004)
Bishop Gregory (Abu Assal) (early 2001 - July 22, 2004) (until December 2, 2001 archimandrite)
Archimandrite Georgy - July 22, 2004)
Archdeacon Peter - July 22, 2004)
St. Basil's (St. Basil of Kineshma) Church (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Archpriest Dionysius McGowan (2004 - August 2005) Deacon Nikolai Stanoshek (deacon from June 27, 2004 - May 2, 2007). In September 2005, the rector was banned from serving for refusing to commemorate Metropolitan Valentin; she continued to feel and commemorate Archbishop of the ROAC Anthony of Yaransky and Vyatka during the service.
Christ the Savior Parish (Cardwell, Montana)
The parish transferred from the Kallinika Synod on September 6, 2002
Priest Savva Ross (Greek elder-Callinikos) (September 6, 2002 - August 2005)
Church of St. Vasily Kineshemsky (Staunton, Virginia, USA) (2001 - ?)
at some point all the clergy serve in other churches, did the congregation move to Colorado Springs?
priest Dionysius McGowan (ordained) (August 2001 - August 2005)
Deacon Pavel Kalamiras, from February 24, 2002 - protodeacon
Photius Roseboro (deacon from March 2, 2003 - , priest from June 27, 2004 - 2004)
Nikolai Stanoshek. deacon (- May 2, 2007)
temple of st. Nicholas
parish of St. Athanasius the Great (San Angelo)
The parish was accepted into the ROAC (members of the community were accepted in different ranks - some through confirmation, some through baptism). Rector Fr. Elijah Greer. As of 2009, he was no longer a member of the ROAC.
Community of St. Seraphim of Sarov (Costa Mesa, then Running Springs, California, USA)
until September 15, 2002 - Mission of St. Maximus the Confessor
O. Mikhail Fresco (October 15, 2001 - (just in California?)
O. John (John) R. Claypool (May 8, 2002 - (deacon from May 8, 2002, priest from September 15, 2002) (died?) As of 2009, he was no longer a member of the ROAC.
Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Worcester, Massachusetts)
The parish transferred from ROCOR(V)
Protopresbyter Victor Melekhov (June 8, 2004 - July 26, 2005)
priest Mikhail Martsinovsky (June 8, 2004 - July 26, 2005). The community continued to feel and remembered Archbishop of the ROAC Anthony of Yaransky and Vyatka during the service
Church of St. Righteous John the Russian (Ipswich, Massachusetts)
The parish transferred from ROCOR(V)
Archpriest Spiridon Schneider (June 8, 2004 - July 26, 2005)
Priest Christopher Johnson (June 8, 2004 - July 26, 2005)
Orthodox mission of the ROAC in Haiti
Church of All Saints (Sofia, Bulgaria)
The parish transferred from the Synod of Cyprian (Bishop Photius) on March 9, 2003, 8 people, through baptism. On July 22, 2004, most of the parish left with Abu Assal
Priest Lyudmil Petrov (deacon from April 19, 2003, priest from April 20, 2003 - July 22, 2004)
John Latkovsky (priest from December 19, 2003 - July 22, 2004)
Radoslav Ivanov (IPCG Cyprian) (priest from December 21, 2003 - October 2005) (to the Kalliniki Synod)
Marian Angelov (deacon from June 26, 2004 - July 22, 2004)
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Silistra, Bulgaria)
The parish transferred from the Synod of Kallinika on December 22, 2003
Priest Roman Konstantinov (December 22, 2003 - July 22, 2004)
Church of St. Stephen the First Martyr (Razgrad, Bulgaria)
The parish transferred from the Synod of Kalliniki on December 22, 2003, in October 2005 they transferred to the Synod of Kalliniki
Priest Stefan Vasilev (December 22, 2003 - October 2005)
Parish of St. Michael the Archangel (Guildford, UK)
The missionary parish near London was created in 1973 and is widely known due to the fact that it is informally headed by reader and church historian Vladimir Moss. In 1975, the parish joined the ROCOR from the Moscow Patriarchate (1975-1978 and 1995-1998), after which it changed jurisdiction more than once (probably the most “flying” parish in the history of Orthodoxy; as a result, it now and then did not have a priest and services were conducted by laymen rank). From 1998 to the end of 2002, the parish was part of the ROAC, where the current rector was ordained for it. Belonged to the “Chrysostomian” Synod (1985-1989, 1990-1994 and from May 2003-), the “Matthean” Synod (1978-1985), the “Sekachestvo” branch of the TOC (1989-1990), in 1994-1998 and the first five months 2003 - independent. Services are held in the cemetery church. Rector: Hieromonk Augustine (Lim) (Chinese by nationality) (in November 21, 2000 - March 7, 2001 - priest Pavel Lim) (March 7, 2001-
Monasteries:
Deposition of Robe Convent (Suzdal)
Schema-Abbesses Euphemia
Nun Priscilla
Nun Paraskeva
Nun Evvula
Nun Anastasia
Nun Matrona
Nun Feofania
Nun Capitolina
Nun Evdokia
Nun Glafira
Nun Lyudmila
Novice Maria
Novice Elena
Novice Galina
nun Sofia (Morozova) (-2001)
Nun Maria (-2001)
nun Euphrosyne (-2001)
The text was prepared as part of the project “Dynamics of the religious situation and religious identity in the Moscow region.” When implementing the project, state support funds are used, allocated as a grant in accordance with the order of the President of the Russian Federation dated 04/05/2016 No. 68-rp and on the basis of a competition held by the National Charitable Foundation.
Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church(ROAC, until 1998 - Russian Orthodox Free Church) - an alternative church organization, represented primarily in the Russian Federation, but with several parishes in the USA (ROAC in America), and at least one in a number of other countries: Bulgaria, Serbia, Brazil, Italy, etc.
The Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in October 1998. Previously, it operated under the name Russian Orthodox Free Church. In the early 2000s. The ROAC has experienced a number of public scandals related to the personality of its head, Metropolitan. Valentina (Rusantsova). In 2002, he was sentenced to 4 years of suspended imprisonment (crimes of a sexual nature involving minors), and two years later the sentence was invalidated. However, this trial is considered the beginning of a significant weakening of the ROAC. Bishop separated from the main branch of the ROAC. Gregory (Lurie), who convened the Bishops' Conference in St. Petersburg; At the moment, among his supporters there are 3 bishops, 6-7 parishes and several hundred parishioners.
In parallel with the institutional crisis, conflicts occurred with local authorities. Since the majority of ROAC communities are concentrated in the Vladimir region, mainly in the Suzdal region, in the circles of the ROC MP this denomination is called the “Suzdal schism”. The regional administration took legal action during 2009-2010. confiscated about 13 churches of the denomination. Later, almost all of them were transferred to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church MP. The last historical church of the ROAC was confiscated in the spring of 2016. Also in 2015, the church was deprived of a cult relic - the relics of St. Euphemia and Euphrosyne of Suzdal, which local authorities transferred to the Deposition of Robe Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in Suzdal.
At the moment, the official head of the denomination is Metropolitan Theodore (Gineevsky). Official title: “Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir.” He is the second First Hierarch of this church. Elected head of the church on January 23, 2012. The unofficial, however, de facto leader of part of the ROAC, namely its “Bishops’ Conference,” is Bishop Gregory (Lurie). The official title is “Bishop of Petrograd and Gdov.”
Number
Counting the number of believers and parishes of the church is difficult due to several circumstances: firstly, the fact that some of them operate underground, and secondly, due to the fact that since the second half of the 2000s it has gradually lost a significant part of its churches (see. Further). At the moment, the church has about 35 officially registered parishes, about 30 act as religious groups, and another 20-30 exist in the conditions of “catacombs”, i.e. illegal; it has 10 bishops, 40 priests, 20 nuns and approximately 5 thousand laity. The figures are based on an internal source and are approximate.
Creed
The general doctrinal and teaching part of the dogma coincides with the Orthodox dogma. Also, the ROAC is characterized by extreme anti-Sovietism, and in connection with this - radical criticism of the ROC for Sergianism (agreements with the Soviet government), ecumenism, renovationism, and a totalitarian church structure. The church leadership advocates a rejection of politics, bureaucracy and deviations from the traditional theology of the Orthodox Church. In general, the views of its supporters can be characterized as conservative, taking into account some freedom in terms of organizing church life that is characteristic of all near-catacomb jurisdictions and is valid everywhere except Suzdal and the Vladimir region. orientation towards autonomy and self-government of parish communities.
The priestly corporation is characterized by the presence of a greater degree of freedom in comparison with the ROC MP, which was often the reason for the transfer of clergy to the ROAC.
Social activity
Among the representatives of the ROAC, two personalities can be distinguished who are known in the media space as representatives of the cultural intelligentsia. The leader of the alternative “Bishops' Conference” of the ROAC, Bishop Gregory (Lurie), is a famous patrolologist and researcher of the history of Christianity. He is a recognized expert in the field of Orthodox theology in Europe and Russia. He is the editor-in-chief of the authoritative French pathological journal Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d'hagiographie critique et d'histoire ecclésiastique."
The most famous cleric of the church to a wide audience is Rev. Mikhail Ardov - publicist, memoirist, rector of the Moscow Church of Sts. Royal Martyrs and New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery, who transferred to the ROAC from the ROAC in 1993. The manager of the affairs of the ROAC AS, Alexander Soldatov, is an observer of religious life in the Russian Federation and runs the very influential portal “Credo.ru”. On this Internet resource, a religious and political analysis of events is presented from an alternative point of view (often the main content of the portal is presented with critical materials in relation to the Russian Orthodox Church MP).
The administrative center is Tsarekonstantinovsky Cathedral in Suzdal, Vladimir region.
The official publication is the Suzdal Diocesan Gazette.
The only currently functioning Internet resource of the church is the website “Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church” in English.
In addition to the above-mentioned temple, located in Moscow itself, in the Moscow region. The ROAC belongs to two parishes - St. Tsarevich-martyr Alexy in the village. Mytishchi and St. Xenia of Petersburg in the village. Novaya Kupavna, as well as the Holy Trinity Monastery in the village. Ostrovo (near the town of Orekhovo-Zuevo).
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