Savvaty (Perepelkin)

Born in the family of a soldier. Baptized in 1979.

In 1983 he graduated from eight classes of secondary school No. 27 of Volgograd. In 1983-1985 he studied at the Kazan Suvorov Military School .

In 1985 he entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School , which he graduated in 1989. He served in the Northern Fleet . In December 1991, he retired to the reserve with the rank of senior lieutenant .

From February to May 1992 he carried the obedience of Kelar to the courtyard of the Valaam Monastery in the city of Priozersk, Leningrad Region. In May 1992, he became a worker at the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra .

In May 1993, he was admitted to the brotherhood of the St. Nicholas- Shartom Monastery in the village of Vvedenye, Shuisky District, Ivanovo Region. He carried the obedience of the editor of the monastery newspaper "Nikolo-Shartomsky Evangelist."

On August 14, 1993, in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the city of Ivanovo, Archbishop Ivanovsky and Kineshmsky Ambrose (Schurov) was ordained to the rank of deacon , and on August 28 - to the rank of priest .

From October 1993 to November 1995 he carried the obedience of a clergyman on the courtyard of the St. Nicholas-Shartom Monastery - in the Resurrection Cathedral of the city ​​of Shui, Ivanovo Region.

In April 1994, Archbishop Ivanovsky and Kineshmsky Ambrosius tonsured a mantle with the name Savvaty in honor of the Monk Savvatiy Solovetsky in the Transfiguration Church of St. Nicholas-Shartomsky Monastery.

In the spring of 1996, he was appointed rector of the Exaltation of the Cross Exaltation Church , a courtyard of the Nikolo-Shartomsky monastery in the village of Palekh, Ivanovo Region. In 1998-2003 - rector of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" - the courtyard of the St. Nicholas-Shartomsky monastery in Ivanovo. In 2003, he was elevated to the rank of abbot .

In 1998-2003, he studied at the correspondence sector of the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary , defending his thesis on the topic “Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20-30s of the XX Century”. In 2003-2008 he studied at the correspondence department of the Moscow Theological Academy .

In 1999-2003 he taught the catechism and Holy Scripture of the New Testament at the Ivanovo Orthodox Theological Institute, in 2000-2004 - church law and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Ivanovo Theological Seminary .

In 2003-2009 he was the confessor of the St. Nicholas-Shartom monastery. In January 2004 he traveled to the Chechen Republic to feed military units.

In 2009, he was appointed rector of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity - the courtyard of the St. Nicholas-Shartom Monastery in the village of Chernets, Lezhnevsky District, Ivanovo Region.

In 2012, he was appointed head of the department for interaction with the Armed Forces of the Shui Diocese .

In October 2011 he was sent to the Khabarovsk diocese , where he was appointed rector of the church under construction, the holy righteous warrior Theodore Ushakov in the city of Sovetskaya Gavan , and in 2012, the dean of the Eastern Deanery District of the Khabarovsk diocese. He was engaged in the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Testament Ilyich . Since 2012 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Social Center of the Sovetsko-Gavansky District of the Khabarovsk Territory and the Board of Trustees of Correctional Colony No. 5.

On October 21, 2016, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was elected Bishop of Vaninsky and Pereyaslavsky ^[1] . On October 26, Metropolitan Ivano-Voznesensky and Vichugsky Joseph was elevated to the rank of archimandrite ^[2] . He was appointed bishop on October 28 in the church of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land, the Patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.

On October 30, 2016, in the church of the Holy Martyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye , his episcopal consecration was performed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Cyril , Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesensky and Vichugsky, Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Amur Vladimir (Archbishop of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka ) Bishop Solnechnogorskiy Sergy (Chashin) , and Bishop Rybinskiy Danilovskiy Benjamin (Likhomanov) , and Bishop Salekhard Novo Urengoysky Nikolai (Chashin) , Bishop Nikolaev Aristarch (Yatsurin) , Bishop Am rsky and Chegdomynsky Nikolai (Ashimov) , and Bishop Kineshemsk Palekh Hilarion (Kaygorodtsev) , and Bishop Vorkuta Usinsky John (Rudenko) ^[3] .

On July 14, 2018, the Holy Synod granted the request of Bishop Savvaty to be put to rest for health reasons and determined the place of his stay as St. Nicholas-Shartomsky Monastery ^[4] .

• Hegumen Savvaty (Perepelkin) . The persecution of the Church in the Ivanovo region in the 20-40s of the XX century .

• Savvaty, Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslavsky (Perepelkin Sergey Alexandrovich) on the website of the Patriarchy.Ru