Bishop Alexy (in the world Aleksey Alekseevich Shpakov ; January 25, 1975 , Lviv ) - Bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) , Bishop of Ascension and May Day .
| Bishop Alexy | ||
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| since September 4, 2012 | ||
| Birth name | Alexey Alekseevich Shpakov | |
| Birth | January 25, 1975 (44 years old) Lviv , Ukrainian SSR | |
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Biography
In 1990, he graduated from nine classes of secondary school No. 1 in the village of Mikhailovka in the Zaporizhzhya Region, after which he entered the Mikhailovsky Higher Vocational Technical School No. 52.
In 1993, he was called up for military service in the ranks of the armed forces. Demobilized in 1995.
From 1995 to 2000 he carried obedience at the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mikhailovka Zaporizhzhya region .
In 2000-2004 he studied at the Kiev Theological Seminary .
In 2004 he was enrolled in the correspondence department at the Chernivtsi Pedagogical Theological Institute , which he graduated in 2006.
On March 16, 2008, Bishop Elisey (Ivanov) of Berdyansk and Primorsky was ordained a deacon .
On March 17 of the same year, he was appointed press secretary of the Berdyansk diocese .
On March 30 of the same year, Archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh Bartholomew (Vashchuk) was ordained a presbyter .
On April 5 of the same year he was appointed clergyman of the Church of the Nativity of the city of Berdyansk, and on April 12th he was appointed clergyman of the church of the Berdyansk New Martyrs in Berdyansk.
On May 4 of the same year, he was appointed secretary of the Berdyansk diocese while retaining the position of its press secretary. On May 20 of the same year, he was appointed chairman of the revision committee of the Berdyansk diocese, and on July 8 of the same year, he was appointed chairman of the church court of the Berdyansk diocese.
November 10, 2008 appointed clergyman at the Holy Trinity Church in Berdyansk.
In the same year he entered the correspondence department of the Kiev Theological Academy .
On December 21, 2008, in the Annunciation Church of the Far Caves of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the rector of the Kiev Theological Academy, Archbishop Anthony (Pakanich) of Boryspil, was tonsured a monk with the name Alexy in honor of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow [1] .
On January 22, 2009, Bishop Elisey (Ivanov) of Berdyansk and Primorsky was elevated to the rank of hegumen .
Since 2009, at the Kiev Theological Academy, he obeyed the assistant economist and the assistant assistant vice-rector for educational work.
As a clergyman of the Berdyansk diocese , he bore various obediences: the press secretary of the diocese, the chairman of the diocesan court, the chairman of the audit commission and the secretary of the diocese.
On August 25, 2012, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he was elected bishop of Ascension and May Day [2] . Soon he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite .
On August 27, 2012, in the Church of All Saints of the Metropolitan St. Panteleimon Convent in Feofania, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir headed the designation of Archimandrite Alexy to Bishop of Voznesensky and Pervomaisky [3] .
September 4, 2012 in the cathedral church of the Panteleimon Convent in Feofania in Kiev, was ordained bishop of Voznesensky and Pervomaisky. The consecration was performed: Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir (Sabodan) , Metropolitan of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl Pavel (Swan) , Metropolitan of Nikolaev and Ochakov Pitirim (Starinsky) , Archbishop of Boryspil Anthony (Pakanich) , Archbishop Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Archbishop of Vishnevsky and Dishnevko Yagotinsky Seraphim (Demyanov) , Archbishop Gorodnitsky Alexander (Nesterchuk) , Bishop Vasilkovsky Panteleimon (Povoroznyuk) , Bishop of Irpen Clement (Vecherya) , Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorsky Ephraim (Yarinko) , Bishop Bor Odyansky Barsanuphius (Joiner) and Bishop of Fastovsky Damian (Davydov) [4] .
June 10, 2015 at the Kiev Theological Academy defended his thesis "History of the Kiev diocese in the context of church-state relations (1944-1990)." The supervisor of the dissertation of the ruling bishop was Candidate of Historical Sciences Igor Khronenko [5] .
Rewards
- Order of St. Nestor the Chronicler of the 2nd degree (June 15, 2010, award of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) [6]
- pectoral cross with ornaments (March 13, 2011)
Notes
- ↑ Monastic tonsure Was performed in KD & S. Date of treatment April 19, 2013. Archived April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of August 25, 2012 | UKRAINE ORTHODOX CHURCH
- ↑ KIEV. His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir headed the rank of Archimandrite Barsanuphius (Stolyar) as Bishop of Borodyansky, Archimandrite Damian (Davydov) as Bishop of Fastovsk ... Archived November 15, 2013.
- ↑ KIEV. The head of the UOC became the head of the consecration of Archimandrite Alexy (Shpakov) as bishop of Voznesensky and Pervomaysky | UKRAINE ORTHODOX CHURCH Archived on September 10, 2012.
- ↑ https://inshe.tv/society/2015-06-10/36089/
- ↑ Memory of the Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God - Graduation Day KDAiS