Hegumen Kirill ( Alexander Sergeevich Sakharov in the world; October 22, 1957 , Artyomovsk , Voroshilovgrad region ) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church , hegumen , rector of the Moscow church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka . Publicist, public figure.
| Hegumen Kirill | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Place of service | Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on Bersenevka |
| San | hegumen |
| Spiritual education | Moscow Theological Academy (1987) |
| Secular education | Moscow State Pedagogical University (1979) |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
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Biography
Born October 22, 1957 in a mining family. While still at school, he was interested in worship and religious issues, receiving factual information, including from atheistic literature. He attended church, regularly read the “ Orthodox Newsletter ” in Ukrainian - the only Orthodox publication available to him at that time. In the Old Believer church of the village Gorodishche, he first became acquainted with the Old Believers .
In 1979 he graduated from the History Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute . After graduation, he worked as a history teacher in a rural school for about a month. He was asked to quit of his own free will due to visiting the temple [1] .
In October 1979, he entered the brotherhood of the Pochaev Lavra , where he passed the obedience of the referator , sexton , assistant cellar , and cell of the viceroy [1] . In 1980, he was forced to leave the Pochaev Lavra: “A commission from Kiev arrived in the laurel, they began to take control of all young people - what they are doing, where they are registered, and so on, and I was forced to leave. At the last moment, returning from the bus station, I asked for blessings for admission to Moscow theological schools from the famous archimandrite Amvrosiy (Yurasov) , who was then in the monastery, and really entered the Moscow Theological Seminary ” [2] .
In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and entered the Moscow Theological Academy (MDA). In the same year he was accepted into the fraternity of the newly opened St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow.
In 1985 he was tonsured with a name Rassofor Boris . On July 12 of the same year he was ordained hierodeacon [3] . In 1986, he was tonsured in a mantle with the name Cyril . In the monastery he was a librarian, a ringer, a setter , an assistant to the dean , a teacher of liturgics in a Sunday school [1] .
In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy. In 1989, he defended a dissertation at the MDA for the degree of candidate of theology for the work "Rev. Paisiy Velichkovsky as a continuer of the Hesychast tradition."
On October 4, 1987, Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson Sergius (Petrov) was ordained to the rank of hieromonk [1] [3] .
In 1989, he founded the “ Danilovsky Leaf ” - the first printed publication of this monastery [1] [4] : “This publication was somewhat popular, it was possible to publish exactly 100 issues” [5] .
Since June 9, 1992 - rector of the Moscow Church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka , leaving the monastery of St. Danilov among the brethren [3] . In 1993 he was elevated to the rank of abbot .
During his reign, the temple was repaired and temple territory was arranged. Divine services in the temple are held in full order without abbreviations, with ancient banner singing , only private confession and immersion baptism are practiced. According to Hegumen Kirill, his temple "practices the Old Believer, or better, Old Russian order," while under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate (in connection with this, the church is often referred to as "St. Nicholas Church on Bersenevka" - such a formulation corresponds to the ancient Russian tradition). At the church, the Bersenevsky Pages newspaper is published, in which, in particular, sermons and teachings of its rector are published. The community takes care of Belinsky Secondary School No. 19, located in the center of Moscow.
The Church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka became the only Moscow church that refused to accept the TIN and PSRN . The parish motivated its decision with religious considerations, a reluctance to get involved in the "globalist network" and participate in the creation of an "electronic concentration camp." In addition, Father Superior Kirill refused to accept a new Russian passport, claiming that he was "crammed with occult symbolism." In connection with this position, relations between the parish and state and church authorities have become much more complicated - in 2003, the issue of abolishing the community (by assigning the status of the Patriarchal Compound to the church) was discussed, and in 2006 - the replacement of the head priest of the church. According to Hegumen Cyril, “God's help, first of all” helped to avoid the liquidation of the community:
She was clearly felt. There was a myrrh streaming of the icon of St. Sergius on the day of refusal to accept the TIN, the icon of righteous Noah on the day of refusal of the state registry number and a number of significant moments of the mystical plan. For example, one woman prayed very much for days and nights to St. Nicholas about how to live without her a TIN and a new passport, without a pension, which she was denied? What temple should she go to now, where to pray? According to her, one night, in a sensitive (subtle) dream, she was told several times: "Bersen ... Bersenevka ...". Asking people and searching in the directory, she thus came to the church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, which also did not accept the TIN.
One of the activities of the parish is assistance in restoring church life in the villages of the Voronezh and Tver regions. Parishioners, led by the abbot, traveled through the villages and erected worship crosses, from which members of the newly created church communities later gathered on Sundays and holidays. In addition, rural libraries of spiritual literature are organized. Another goal of such trips is to encourage rural residents to restore dilapidated temples. According to the memoirs of Abbot Cyril, they came to some village where there was a ruined temple,
hung bells on a tree, started ringing . People did not understand anything at first, then gathered for the church. We serve a prayer service , then a sermon , a common meal. Then we invite everyone to work time. There were real miracles. I remember, a month and a half after our appearance in the village of Eryshevka, I received a letter from local residents informing me that they had already covered the roof, laid the floors, put in windows and even broke flower beds around the church.
Church and Community Activities
Hegumen Kirill was an active and consistent supporter of the canonization of Tsar Nicholas II and his family . For the first time in the church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, the “rite of conciliar repentance of the Russian people” was non- canonical and essentially contradicting the dogmas of the Orthodox Church in the sin of “condoning regicide” (the Orthodox tradition does not know any collegial repentance), which later spread among the conservative part of the clergy and near-church fundamentalists .
Hegumen Kirill visited Ukraine many times, where he performed divine services in various churches, and often preached . He is a staunch opponent of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He actively supported the Orthodox Serbs , including on the Kosovo issue. So, in 1999, during the bombing of Yugoslavia, Abbot Cyril held a procession, culminating in a prayer service on the territory of the church. On April 3, 2004, he served in Moscow on the Hunchback Bridge a prayer service “For the victory of Serbian brothers over the opposite”. On February 26, 2006, in the church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, during the Divine Liturgy, “special prayers were offered for the long-suffering Kosovo. The hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, led by His Holiness Patriarch Pavel , prisoners of the Hague Tribunal , persecuted Serbian patriots, were mentioned. ”
In March 2007, Abbot Kirill supported the appeal of the bishop of Anadyr and Chukchi Diomedes (Dzuban) with a sharp criticism of the ecumenical activities of the Moscow Patriarchate . According to him, “Bishop Diomede said something that many have been talking about for a long time. Ecumenism has not gone anywhere, joint prayers, though not as openly and widely as before, take place. ”
April 4, 2012 admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia [6] .
Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods
In 1991 - 1997, he was the chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods , an organization uniting the conservative part of clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church, who oppose ecumenism and adhere to the "strict" adherence to the Orthodox tradition (opponents call the members of the union "fundamentalists"). In 1997-2007 he was a member of the council and executive secretary of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods. Chairman and confessor of the Orthodox Brotherhood in the name of All Saints, who shone in the land of Russia. Confessor of the Holy Trinity Orthodox Brotherhood.
In 2007, a conflict occurred in the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods. By the decision of the spiritual father of the Union, Father Pavel (Povalyaev), who was acting at that time, temporarily (until the next conference of the Union) the functions of the chairman of the Union, Leonid Simonovich-Nikshich , were simultaneously suspended, and he was also the head of the Union of Orthodox Baptists . In response, supporters of Simonovich-Niksic announced the expulsion of Hegumen Kirill from the Union. On August 9, 2007, at an extraordinary report-back election conference of the Union, a decision was made to disengage from the "gonfalons" and to elect two co-chairs - Abbot Cyril and chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine Valentin Lukiyanik . Simonovich-Niksic did not recognize this decision.
In 2007, Abbot Kirill supported the Agrarian Party of Russia in the elections to the State Duma : the head of its department for culture, art and spiritual education, Vladimir Frolov, is one of the leaders of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods. Earlier, in the 2003 elections, he voted for the Rodina electoral bloc.
Hegumen Kirill and the Union of the Russian People
In November 2005, Abbot Kirill attended a prayer service during the opening of the founding congress of the Union of Russian People (NRC), led by sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov . After the death of Klykov, General Leonid Ivashov was elected his successor. Father Cyril was elected the confessor of the Union of Russian People, who, after General Ivashov, was headed by Dmitry Merkulov .
Proceedings
- Foreigners about the Russian Church of the XVI-XVII centuries.
- Memories. M., 2008.
- Memoirs of Part 2. M., 2011
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Hegumen Kirill (Sakharov) on the site “Russian Popular Line”
- ↑ Hegumen Kirill (Sakharov): Every minute I tried to spend it to the maximum benefit . Tatyana's Day.
- ↑ 1 2 3 http: //centrevik.rf/component/content/article/2069.html
- ↑ Seal of the Russian Orthodox Church: past and present
- ↑ Library of the Periodical Press / On the 30th anniversary of the revival of St. Danilov Monastery. Russian line.
- ↑ “For several decades, active life has pulsed here for the good of our Fatherland”