Archbishop Pavel , or Paavali [1] ( Fin. Arkkipiispa Paavali , in the world of Yrjö Olmari , Fin. Yrjö Olmari , at birth Georgy Gusev ; August 28, 1914 , St. Petersburg , Russian Empire - December 2, 1988 , Kuopio , Finland ) - Bishop Constantinople Orthodox Church , the Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, the head of the Finnish Archdiocese (1960-1987).
| Archbishop Pavel | ||
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| August 29, 1960 - September 16, 1987 | ||
| Church | Finnish Archdiocese | |
| Predecessor | Herman (Aav) | |
| Successor | John (Rinne) | |
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| October 27, 1955 - August 29, 1960 | ||
| Predecessor | vicariate established | |
| Successor | Leo (Makkonen) | |
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| Death | ||
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| Father | Alvi Gusev | |
| Mother | Anna Pavlovna Vodomenskaya | |
| Adoption of holy dignity | 1938 | |
| Adoption of monasticism | September 1938 | |
| Episcopal consecration | November 27, 1955 | |
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Biography
Born on August 28, 1914 (in a new style) in St. Petersburg in the family of collegiate assessor Alexander Ivanovich Gusev and Anna Pavlovna Vodomenskaya. He was baptized on October 21, 1914 in the Resurrection Church, which at the Petrograd hospital of the Great Martyr Panteleimon. His successors at the font were his uncle Pavel Pavlovich Vodomensky and grandmother Evdokia Isidorovna Vodomenskaya [2] .
In 1919, the Gusev family moved to Vyborg , which then retired to the newly independent Finland , and in 1927 changed its surname to Finnish — Olmari [2] .
He studied in the Finnish classical lyceum of Vyborg , but in 1932, after finishing fifth grade, he left his studies due to the death of his father. In the same year he entered the Orthodox Theological Seminary in the city of Sortavala (former Serdobol), where teaching was conducted in Finnish . During his studies at the seminary, he led a student seminary choir and worked as deputy regent of the Orthodox Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sortavala. In addition, the seminary began to translate into Finnish Slavic church chants and works by Russian composers [2] .
As a student at the seminary, he repeatedly visited the Valaam Monastery on Ladoga, where he once spent several weeks in St. John the Baptist Monastery. Later in his work “Memories of Valaam”, published fifty years later, Archbishop Pavel warmly recalled the John the Baptist Skete and his chief, the leader, John the Great (Alekseev) .
In December 1937, he joined the fraternity of the Valaam Monastery, where in September 1938 he was tonsured a monk with the name of Paul and consecrated ordained to the priesthood and hieromonk . He directed the monastic church choir of boys [3] .
During the Soviet-Finnish war he served as a military priest in the Valaam region and participated in the evacuation of the Valaam Monastery. During the “continuation war” he was a military priest in the Olonets region , where Orthodox military priests opposed the forced conversion of the inhabitants of Eastern Karelia to Lutheranism. Later he served as a priest in a prisoner of war camp, a teacher of the Law of God in teacher courses. After the war, hieromonk Pavel worked as a regent of church choir, chief editor of the Council on the publication of Orthodox literature, and since 1949 - chief editor of the journal Aamun Coitto.
On November 25, 1955, Archimandrite Pavel was nominated as bishop , and on November 27, Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Herman (Aav) ordained Archimandrite Pavel in the Vicar Bishop of Joensuu . He became the first bishop in the history of the Finnish Orthodox Church, tonsured as a monk. Since then this general Orthodox tradition has been preserved as obligatory in the Archdiocese of Finland. .
After the restoration of liturgical communion of the Finnish Archdiocese with the Russian Orthodox Church on May 7, 1957, in July 1957, for the first time, he visited the USSR at the head of the Finnish church delegation. He took part in the episcopal consecration of Archimandrite Paul (Golyshev) .
In 1960, at the Council of the Finnish Archdiocese, he was elected Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland .
While in this post, he repeatedly visited the Russian Orthodox Church: he was a participant in the celebrations dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the episcopal service of Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) (1963), the 50th anniversary (1968) and the 60th anniversary (1978) of the restoration of the Patriarchate. In September 1978, he participated in the funeral service of the metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, Nikodim (Rotov) .
In 1967, the University of Helsinki awarded him the degree of Doctor of Theology honoris causa . In the same year, Archbishop Paul was elected an honorary member of the Leningrad Theological Academy .
September 16, 1987, on his own petition, was retired [4] .
He died on December 2, 1988 and was buried in the cemetery of the Novo-Valaam Monastery .
Bibliography
- Impressions of the Finnish church delegation // JMP. 1957, No. 8. P. 32—33.
- Erämaan hedelmälliset puutarhat: erakkoisien opetuksia / toim. ja suom. arkkipiispa paavali. [Drevni paterik] Porvoo; Hki; Juva: WSOY, 1978.
- Miten uskomme: ortodoksinen paimenkirje / arkkipiispa Paavali. Porvoo; Hki; Juva: WSOY, 1978 (Porvoo)
- Ortodoksisen kirkon liturgiikka / arkkipiispa Paavalin liturgiikan luentoja.
- Ortodoksisia kirkkolauluja: Kotkassa 1-2.12.1951 pidettävien Seitsemänsien ortodoksisten laulupäivien ohjelmistoa / toim. pappismunkki Paavali; nuotit tekstannut Leo Kasanko. Kuopio: Pyhän Sergein ja Hermannin veljeskunta, 1951.
- Rukous ikonin edessä / arkkipiispa Paavali; [valokuvaus: Vesa P. Takala; toimitustyö: Marianna Laurson]. Porvoo: WSOY, 1982.
- Uskon pidot: kutsu Jumalan valtakunnan rakkauden aterialle / Arkkipiispa Paavali. Porvoo: WSOY, 1986.
- Vaeltajan kertomukset / [arkkipiispa Paavalin tark. suom.]. Helsingissä [Hki]: Otava, 1983.
- Valamon vanhuksen kirjeitä / skeemaigumeni Johannes; [suomennos: arkkipiispa Paavali]. Heinävesi: Valamon luostari, 1992 (Jyväskylä: Gummerus).
- “… Ja on oleva yksi lauma ja yksi paimen”: kristittyjen jälleenyhdistymisen aate ortodoksisen kirkon tajunassa / Pappismunkki Paavali. Kuopio, 1951.
- Ortodoksinen laulukirja / pappismunkki Paavali. Hki, 1944.
The work of Archbishop Paul “How we Believe” (“Miten uskomme: ortodoksinen paimenkirje”) has been translated into many languages. [five]
Notes
- ↑ Laytila, 2004 .
- 2 1 2 3 Hieromonk Silouan (Nikitin) The Life of the Archbishop of Finland Pavel (Olmari) Archival copy of September 6, 2017 on the Wayback Machine // Christian Reading , No. 4, 2017. St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. Pp. 364-377
- ↑ Archbishop Pavel Gusev-Olmari
- ↑ Demetrius Kiminas "The Ecumenical Patriarchate". - Wildside Press LLC, 2009. - ISBN 9781434458766 , p. 138
- ↑ The Russian-Chinese edition of the book of the Archbishop of Finland Pavel (Olmari) “How we Believe” was published
Literature
- Laytila T. Paavali (Pavel) // One Hundred Wonderful Finns : A Kaleidoscope of Biographies: [ arch. December 18, 2012 ] / ed. ; per. with fin. I. M. Solomeshcha. - Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society , 2004. - 814 p. - ISBN 951-746-522X . ( One hundred wonderful Finns )
- Hieromonk Silouan (Nikitin) . The life path of the Archbishop of Finland Pavel (Olmari) // Christian Reading , No. 4, 2017. St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. Pp. 364-377
- Reception by the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in Damascus Head of the Finnish Orthodox Church, Archbishop Paul // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1967. № 1 (ZhMP). page 6
- The Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Pavel visiting the Russian Church // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1982. № 6 (ZhMP). p. 65.
- Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Pavel visits the Soviet Union // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1975. № 8 (ZhMP). page 4.
- Awarding of the Primate of the Fraternal Church [Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland Paul Order of St. Prince Vladimir I degree) // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1967. № 8 (ZhMP). page 2.
- Congratulations to the Primate of the Finnish Orthodox Church // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1982. № 10 (ZhMP). page 3.
- Bartholomew, Archbishop [Tashkent and Central Asian]. The stay of the Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Pavel in the USSR // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1975. Number 10 (ZhMP). pp. 17-21.
- Nicodemus, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod. His Eminence, His Eminence Paul, Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland [message on the occasion of the consecration of the new church in the Novo-Valaam Monastery] // Moscow Patriarchate Journal. M., 1977. No. 10 (ZhMP). p. 55.
- Stay in the Soviet Union, Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Paul // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1979. № 6 (ZhMP). p. 6-7.
- Pimen, Patriarch. Archbishop Pavel [thanks for hospitality during a visit to Finland] // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1974. № 7 (ZhMP). page 2.
- Soyko Bogdan, Archpriest. The celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Paul // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1984. Number 12 (ZhMP). pp. 57-58.
- Juvenal, Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, Chairman of the DECR. To Archbishop of Karelia and all of Finland Pavel [greeting on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Finnish Orthodox Theological Seminary] // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. M., 1978. № 11 (ZhMP). page 5.
- Nunna Kristoduli. Arkkipiispa Paavali hengellisen lapsensa silmin. Minerva. Helsinki-Jyväskylä. 2008. ISBN 978-952-492-176-3
Links
- There are media files on Wikimedia Commons on Archbishop Paul (Olmari)
- The Orthodox seminary in Joensuu hosted a conference dedicated to the memory of Archbishop Pavel of Finland (Rus.)