Lucian (Kutsenko)

Baptized in infancy in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the village of Krasnoznamenka .

In 1978, he graduated from an incomplete secondary school and continued his studies at the evening school in Odessa at vocational school No. 3. At the same time, he worked as a psalmist in the Holy Protection Church of the village of Dachnoe near Odessa.

From 1984 to 1986 he worked in Rostov-on-Don in the residence of the Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk Vladimir (Sabodan) .

In 1986 he entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary , which he graduated in 1990 .

On April 26, 1989, he was tonsured a monk by Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod (Ridiger) .

On September 3, 1989, he was ordained hierodeacon by Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod.

On May 24, 1990, he was ordained a hieromonk by the Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod Alexy in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .

On October 1, 1990, he was confirmed as rector of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, at the Warsaw Station in St. Petersburg .

On June 1, 1991, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, John (Snychev), he founded the Pokrovo-Terevenichsky Convent (Leningrad Region, Lodeynopolsky District, the village of Tervenichi) and was appointed confessor of this new monastery.

In 1992, in St. Petersburg, the abandoned building of the 18th century was restored - the surviving outbuilding of the Vorontsov estate, transformed into the church of the holy martyrs Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov and their mother Sofia. February 11, 1992 appointed rector of the temple.

On December 23, 1997, he was relieved of his post as rector of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov, and their mother Sophia Metochion of the Intercession-Terevenichsky Convent in St. Petersburg and was appointed acting rector of the Holy Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Convent of the St. Petersburg Diocese.

April 8, 1998 for the feast of Holy Easter, he was elevated to the rank of abbot .

On July 19, 1999, by a resolution of the Holy Synod, he was confirmed as rector of the Holy Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Monastery of the St. Petersburg Diocese ^[1] .

December 10, 2002 was appointed confessor of the Vvedeno-Oyatsky Convent of the St. Petersburg Diocese.

Since 2002, he directed the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in the native village of Belka, Ivanovo district, Odessa region.

On October 13, 2004, in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Alexander Svir Monastery, Metropolitan Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (Kotlyarov) was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite for the diligent service of the Russian Orthodox Church, for the revival of the Holy Trinity Alexander Svir Monastery and for the spiritual nourishment of the Intercession of the Holy Trinity Introduced Oyatsky convents.

On January 3, 2006, he was appointed Dean of the Lodeinopolsky District of the St. Petersburg Diocese.

In May 2006 he graduated from the full course of the Kiev Theological Academy .

Being the dean of the Lodeinopolsky deanery district, located in the Lodeinopolsky and Podporozhsky districts of the Leningrad region, he carried out administrative and liturgical activities in 8 parishes, 10 ascribed temples.

On July 26, 2010, by the decision of the Holy Synod, it was determined to be bishop of Lodeinopolsky , vicar of the St. Petersburg diocese ^[2] , but the consecration of Archimandrite Lucian to the bishop of Lodeinopolsky did not take place.

On October 5, 2011, by the decision of the Holy Synod, it was determined to be the bishop of the Annunciation and Tyndinsky ^[3] .

On October 7, 2011, in the Throne Hall of the Patriarchal chambers of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill headed the rank of designation of Archimandrite Lucian to Bishop of Annunciation ^[4] .

October 16, 2011 in the Cathedral Cathedral of Christ the Savior consecrated bishop of Annunciation and Tyndinsky. The ordination was performed by: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia Barsanuphius (Sudakov) , Archbishop Istrinsky Arseny (Epifanov) , Archbishop Vereisky Eugene (Reshetnikov) , Bishop of Solnechnogorsk Sergius (Chashin) , Bishop Bishop of Vybrynsky ( Bishop ) Savva (Mikheev) , Bishop of Magadan and Sinegorsky John (Pavlihin) , Bishop of Ardatovsky and Atyashevsky Benjamin (Kirillov) ^[5] .

In June 2012, post-graduate courses for newly appointed bishops took place at the Church Graduate School and Doctoral Studies ^{[6] [7]} .

By the decision of the Holy Synod of July 13, 2015, he was approved as the holy archimandrite of the Holy Trinity Monastery in the village of Troitskoye, Ivanovo District, Amur Region.

On February 1, 2018, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill was elevated to the rank of archbishop. ^[eight]

Church

• Silver medal of St. good Prince Alexander Nevsky (from the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg Vladimir, April 30, 2003)
• Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Nestor the Chronicler of the III degree (June 5, 2004)
• Silver medal of the Holy Supreme Apostle Peter (from Metropolitan of St. Petersburg Vladimir, September 14, 2005)
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov III degree (July 19, 2006)
• Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir I degree (December 10, 2006)
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh III degree (April 8, 2015) ^[9]

Secular

• Order of Friendship (January 9, 2008)

• Lucian, Bishop of Annunciation and Tyndinsky (Kutsenko Leonid Sergeevich) // Patriarchy.Ru
• Bishop Lucian's blog // Portamur news agency

bishop

• We have someone to imitate in our works // Shepherd Magazine: May 2008, p. 42
• Bishop of Annunciation and Tyndinsky Lucian: The main power is only in faith // pravmir.ru , November 1, 2012
• Bishop of Annunciation Lucian: Today more and more people come to temples // patriarchia.ru , November 20, 2012
• Bishop Lucian's answers to questions from readers of the BLAGINFORM portal (December 2015) // agioc.ru, 12/21/2015