Alexy (Frolov)

From an early youth, he gained a spiritual mentor - Scheiarchimandrite Gregory (Davydov).

After graduating from high school, he worked in organizations specializing in communication technology.

Since 1970, he worked in the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, on Yauza .

Under the direction of Scheme Archimandrite Gregory, as well as Scheme Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) , whom the future Bishop visited with his confessor, Anatoly was preparing to enter the Moscow Theological Seminary .

In 1972 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary; in 1974 he was enrolled in the Moscow Theological Academy (MDA).

On October 19, 1975, the rector of the academy, Archbishop Vladimir (Sabodan), was ordained a deacon ( celibacy ); served in the academic Pokrovsky church. In the same year he became an employee of the Church and Archaeological Cabinet of the MDA, in which he obeyed until 1989 .

On March 25, 1979, the rector of the Academy was tonsured a monk with the name Alexy in honor of Alexy, the man of God . In the same year he graduated from the Academy with the title of candidate of theology for the essay “Confession in the Pastoral Care of Counseling” in the department “Pastoral Theology”.

From 1980 to 1992, he was a teacher at the Moscow Theological Seminary.

On September 27, 1989 , on the Exaltation , by Archbishop Zaraisky Alexy (Kutepov) in the Cross Patriarchal Church in the Patriarchal Residence in Chisty Lane, he was ordained a hieromonk , elevated to the rank of archimandrite and appointed rector of the house church in the name of St. Seraphim of Sarov’s Artistic Russian Orthodox Art the church of Sofrino.

In March 1991, by decree of Patriarch Alexy II, he was appointed viceroy of the Moscow Novospassky Monastery .

Bishops

On July 16, 1995, by decree of the Holy Synod, he was determined to be Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky , Vicar of the Moscow Diocese . Then he was appointed chairman of the Synodal Commission for Monasteries, while retaining the position of governor of the Novospassky monastery.

On August 19, 1995 , on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord , in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Novospassky Monastery, during the liturgy, he was consecrated bishop by Patriarch Alexy II, Metropolitan Juvenal of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, Mogilevsky and Mstislavsky (Archbishop) , Archbishop Maxim Krohnechopchek (Khoropechop) , Archbishop Maxim Krohnechopysch (Archbiechopchop) , Archbishop Maxim Krohnechopysch (Archbiechopchop) , Archbishop Maxim Krohnechopysch (Archbishop Mentor Wroclopskie) and Archbishop Maxim Krohnechopchop (Archbishop) Sergius (Fomin) , Bishop Istrinsky Arseny (Epifanov) , Bishop Bronnitsky Tikhon (Emelyanov) , Bishop Zaraisky Pavel (Ponomaryov) , Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotaevsky Iono th (Karpukhin) and Bishop Vereisky Eugene (Reshetnikov) ^[1] .

He was chairman of the Commission on the artistic decoration of the restored Cathedral of Christ the Savior .

December 27, 1995 - Chairman of the Synodal Liturgical Commission .

October 11, 1996 appointed chairman of the financial and economic department of the Moscow Patriarchate ; On February 17, 1997, due to the dissolution of the financial and economic administration, he was dismissed from his post and appointed chairman of the synodal Commission on Economic and Humanitarian Issues.

February 18, 1997 on the first day of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church February 18-23, 1997 was elected to the secretariat of the Cathedral ^[2] .

On February 29, 2004, by decree of Patriarch Alexy II, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop ^[3] .

On March 5, 2010, by the decision of the Holy Synod, Archbishop Alexy was determined to be His Grace Kostroma and Galich, while retaining the position of Chairman of the Synodal Liturgical Commission ^[4] .

On July 26, 2010, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was appointed rector of the Kostroma Theological Seminary ^[5] .

On March 22, 2011, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was relieved of his duties as deputy governor of the Novospassky stavropegic male monastery in Moscow ^[6] and was soon approved as rector (holy archimandrite) of the Holy Trinity Ipatievsky male monastery in the city ​​of Kostroma.

Since mid-2012, he did not perform divine services and did not participate in any public events ^[7] .

On May 13, 2013, by the decree of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Archbishop Alexei of Kostroma and Galich was appointed Bishop of Makarevsky Ferapont (Kashin) , vicar of the Kostroma diocese ^[8] .

December 3, 2013 he died after a long illness ^[9] .

On December 5, a farewell to Archbishop Alexy took place in the Novospassky Stavropegial Monastery . On December 6, the funeral of Archbishop Alexis took place there, led by Archbishop Istra of Arseny (Epifanov) ^[10] .

He was buried in the walls of the Novospassky monastery next to the graves of Scheme Archimandrite Guria (Mishchenko) and Archimandrite Innocent (Prosvirnin) ^[11] .

I stood at the origins of the Heritage charity foundation. For several years he was the spiritual leader of the Russian Lemnos project. With his blessing, the memory of the Russian sufferers on the Greek island of Lemnos was revived, which in 1920 became a haven for tens of thousands of Russian people after their exodus from Russia, captured by the civil war ^[12] .

He actively participated in the life of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies . He was a member of the Public Council of the journal "Problems of National Strategy", was a reviewer of a number of books published by the institute. Some of his own works are published in RISI publications ^[12] .

On August 6, 2008, in the Great Cathedral of the Moscow Donskoy Monastery, he performed a memorial service and funeral service for the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn ^[13] .

Archbishop Alexy believed in the restoration of Orthodox Russia and said that the grave suffering of the Russian people is a consequence of Russia's betrayal of itself, its path, its vocation. He considered the return of Russia to be our national idea ^[12] .

As the Holy Fire publication notes, Archbishop Alexy was the unspoken spiritual leader of the anti-reform movement of the priesthood and laity of Moscow ^[14] .

In 2006, he condemned monastic communities that do not accept TINs and reject passports as violating the church hierarchy, urging monks who reject passports to “abandon self-rule and self-justification and admit their wrongfulness to the Patriarch and their hierarchy” ^[15] .

Those who knew Archbishop Alexy noted his prayer and modesty ^{[16] [17]} .

• “Confession in the work of pastoral counseling”: Candidate's essay.
• Solemn anniversary meeting in Moscow Theological Schools [on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen] // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1983. No. 2. P. 45-46.
• Speech in the designation of a bishop // ZhMP. 1995. No. 11. p. 8-9.
• On the development of liturgical practice and monastic life in the Russian Orthodox Church. Report at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, October 3–8, 2004 // rusk.ru, 10/05/2004

• Order of Friendship ( August 11, 2000 ) - for his great contribution to strengthening civil peace and the revival of spiritual and moral traditions ^[18]
• Order of the Holy Right Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II and III degree
• Order of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomensky , II ^[19] and III degree

• Alexy, Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (Frolov Anatoly Stepanovich) // Patriarchy.Ru
• Alexy (Frolov) on the website of the Russian Orthodoxy Foundation
• Biography on the site of the Kostroma diocese
• The Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexis has died to the Lord
• “JUST LOOK AT IT - AND AT THE SOUL OF JOY!” // pravoslavie.ru , December 3, 2018