Abbot Nestor ( Finnish. Igumeni Nestor , in the world Yakov Grigoryevich Kiselenkov ; October 17, 1887 , the village of Voronino , Kaluga province - September 14, 1967 , Joensuu , Finland ) - clergyman of the Finnish Archdiocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , archimandrite ; from 1952 to 1967 - rector of Finland’s only Orthodox male Novo-Valaam monastery .
| Hegumen Nestor | ||
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| Igumeni Nestor | ||
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| July 26, 1952 - September 14, 1967 | ||
| Church | Patriarchate of Constantinople | |
| Community | Finnish Archbishopric | |
| Predecessor | Jerome (Grigoriev) | |
| Successor | Symphorian (Matveev) | |
| Birth name | Yakov G. Kiselenkov | |
| Birth | ||
| Death | ||
| Buried | ||
| Holy Order | June 29, 1926 | |
| Monasticism | April 3, 1918 | |
Biography
Born on October 17 (or October 19), 1887, in a village of Voronino , Mosalsky district of Kaluga province, in a peasant family. He received his primary education in his native village, where he graduated from a parish school course.
On June 8, 1905, he entered the Valaam Monastery , and on October 19, 1911, he was enlisted as a novice. On April 3, 1918, he was tonsured a monk at the Bishop’s House in Vyborg; on November 15, 1922 he was ordained a hierodeacon , and on June 29, 1926, in a hieromonk . He passed painting and kliros obedience, worked in the Herman's Monastery ( Valaam Island ) and at the Bishop's House in Vyborg, carried the clergy, was a singer of the monastery cathedral choir. In 1936 he accepted Finnish citizenship.
After the evacuation of the brotherhood of the Valaam Monastery in 1939 deep into Finland, since 1942 he performed the obedience of the regent of the monastery choir. In 1945-1957, together with the brotherhood of the New Valaam Monastery, it was under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1948 he was appointed dean of the monastery, and on August 24, 1949 - economist.
July 26, 1952 he was elected rector of the New Valaam Monastery. It was consecrated to the Abbot by Metropolitan Grigory (Chukov) of Leningrad with the laying of a club, the Abbot cross with decorations and miter.
In 1957, when the Russian Orthodox Church transferred the Novo-Valaam Monastery to the jurisdiction of the Finnish Archbishopric , and part of the brethren, having received permission, moved to the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery , Abbot Nestor chose to stay in Finland.
He died on September 14, 1967 in the North Karelian central hospital of the city of Joensuu . He was buried in the fraternal cemetery of the New Valaam Monastery [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Pavinsky George, archpriest. Eternal memory to the deceased! [Nestor (Kiselenkov), Abbot, Valaam Monastery] // Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. - M., 1968. - No. 3. - S. 15-16.
Links
- Hegumen Nestor (Kiselenkov) (Russian)
- Nestor (Kiselenkov) hegumen (Russian)