Job (Kresovich)

Vladimir Adrianovich Kresovich ^[1] was born in the family of a priest, all of his male ancestors were clergy. He graduated from the Meletsky Theological College ( 1913 ), the Kremenetsky Theological Seminary ( 1922 ).

October 30, 1921 Bishop Bishop of Kremenets Dionysius (Waledinsky) ordained to the rank of deacon .

Since March 5, 1922 - priest of the St. Nicholas Church of the Kremenets Epiphany Monastery.

Since 1922 - rector of the Holy Trinity Church in the town of Rokhmanov , now the Ternopil region , at the same time served as the anti-sectarian missionary of the Kremenets district.

Since 1932 - rector of the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Tarakanov, now the Volyn region . Acted as the county anti-sectarian missionary of the Dubensky district.

Since 1935 - rector of the Church of St. John the Merciful in the village of Lyubcha, now the Volyn region and dean of the Rozhishchensky district, Lutsk district. In 1942 he was widowed.

Bishop

On July 21, 1942, he was tonsured a monk by Metropolitan Alexy (Gromadsky) and elevated to the rank of archimandrite .

Since July 24, 1942 - Bishop of Lutsk , Vicar of the Volyn Diocese in the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church , which preserved canonical communion with the Moscow Patriarchate under the conditions of Nazi occupation.

Since June 6, 1943 - Bishop of Kremenets and Dubensky . Stayed with the flock. (Kremenets was liberated by the Red Army on March 19, 1944 ).

Since February 14, 1945 - Bishop of Izmail, Russian Orthodox Church.

April 5, 1946 due to illness, was fired to rest in one of the monasteries of the Chisinau diocese .

Since July 29, 1946 - Bishop Lyskovsky , Vicar of the Gorky Diocese .

In 1948, he temporarily ruled the Gorky diocese .

Since December 7, 1950 - Bishop of Velikiye Luki and Toropetsk .

Since July 20, 1951 - Bishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash .

Since January 28, 1953 - Bishop of Kazan and Chistopol , temporarily managing the Cheboksary diocese.

February 25, 1954 was elevated to the rank of archbishop .

After the death of the bishop of Saratov and Balashovsky, Benjamin (Milov) temporarily ruled the Saratov diocese.

Since December 26, 1957 - Archbishop of Kazan and Mari . He was known as an eloquent preacher.

Condemnation in 1960

In March 1960, released from the administration of the diocese; a month later he was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of tax evasion and concealment of income. The real reason for the conviction is the opposition to the closure of churches in the diocese during the period of complication of relations between the church and the state under Nikita Khrushchev . Metropolitan Nikolai (Yarushevich) in an interview with Archbishop Vasily (Krivoshein) spoke about the circumstances of the conviction of Vladyka Job:

Believe me, all these financial charges are wrong or, at least, eighty percent wrong. The true background of the matter with the Archbishop of Job is not in this. He was an active bishop, preached, traveled to parishes, fought against godlessness, opposed the closure of parishes. This, of course, did not please the civil authorities, they decided to remove him, but since it was inconvenient to directly accuse him of his church work, he was charged with tax evasion.

After Release

Since October 23, 1967 - Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak .

Since October 16, 1973 - Archbishop of Ivanovo and Kinesham .

October 6, 1977, being seriously ill, of his own free will was fired for peace and moved to Lviv , where he lived with his children. He died on December 4 in Lviv, was buried at the city’s Yanovsky cemetery.

An obituary published in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate said that Vladyka Job was “a man deeply devoted to the church, modest, peaceful ... who everywhere he visited was remembered as a kind and generous shepherd, ardently devoted to God and merciful to people ". Thus, the church actually disavowed the court’s verdict against the archbishop (earlier the hierarchy had already determined its attitude to this verdict by appointing Vladyka Job to the bishop's departments).

• Job (Kresovich) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
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• Good Shepherd. The blessed memory of Archbishop Job (Kresovich).
• Job (Kresovich Vladimir Adrianovich) in the PSTGU Database