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His Eminence AGAFANGEL, Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America,
Archbishop of Tauride and Odessa, ruling bishop of the New York and
Odessa dioceses, Chairman of the Bishops' Council and the Synod of the
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
Mikhailovskaya pl , 1, Odessa, 65005, Ukraine. Tel .: (048) 7311203,
7334464 , tel / fax: (048) 7320801 , e- mail:
agafangel.roca@gmail.com
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His Grace Agafangel (in the world Mikhail Ivanovich Pashkovsky) was
born on November 22, 1956 in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied at the
Odessa Pedagogical Institute. His monasticism he received on August 31, 1991
with the name Agafangel in honor of the "+Holy Confessor St. Agafangel
(Preobrazhensky), the Metropolitan of Yaroslavl " (commemorated on October
16, 2001). He was ordained to the deaconate on 01.09.91 and to the priest's rank
on 08.09.91 in Moscow in the catacomb house-church of the Holy .
New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, by ROCOR, Archbishop of Tambov and Morshansk
Lazar (Zhurbenko). In 1992 he achieved the transfer of ownership to our
ROCA church, of the Church of the Saint Nicholas and Ariadne (now named of St. John
of Kronstadt ) in Odessa, and from that time he has been its rector. On
27.03.94 in the Tsarekonstantinovsky'-Tsar Constantine Cathedral in Suzdal, he was consecrated as
a bishop, as "Bishop of Simferopol", and since 1996: the "Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea,"
and since 17.12.03, a "Bishop of Tauride and Odessa". On 10.07.07 he was elected the
chairman of the ROCA PSEA. And on 19.11.08, at the Fifth All-Diaspora ROCA Council he was
elected "First Hierarch of the ROCA with the title Metropolitan of New
York and Eastern-America".
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His Eminence JOHN, Archbishop of Buin and Volzhsky, the ruling bishop
of the Buinsk diocese.
Russia, 160010, Vologda, the street. Chkalov, 1. Tel: 89115022155
He was born on January 10, 1957 in Chuvashia (Russia). He was Baptized and
nurtured in the True Orthodox Church. He graduated from the technical school of railway
transport. He served two years in the army. He worked in railway
organizations for twenty years. From the age of fifteen he was
obedient to the catacomb Bishop Varsenofy. In 1994, in the
canonical prescribed order, he was ordained a deacon, and on the next day - he was ordained to the priest's rank by
Bishop Varsonofy. After the death of his ruling bishop, he was a
senior/leader priest in this catacomb group. On the Feast of the Intercession
of the Mother of God, at the Council of the True Orthodox Church, he was consecrated to the
rank of bishop. He then was canonically received into the ROCA, through hirotosis
[a canonical fulfilling of a previous incomplete episcopal consecration]
on September 6,
2008.
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The Most Reverend Archbishop George (in the world Valery Nikolaevich
Kravchenko) was born on 10.04.71 in Ukraine. His higher education: He
graduated from the Odessa Theological Seminary (MP). His monasticism was
adopted on 13.02.93 with the name of George in honor of the Great
Martyr George the Victorious. His diaconal ordination: 28.02.93 in the
Holy Assumption Monastery in Odessa (by MP-metropolitan Agafangel);
his priestly ordination: 10.04.93 in the same place (again, by MP-Metropolitan
Agafangel); to the monastic rank of hegumen, he was elevated to on 16.04. 99.
After learning the truth of the church situation, on July 23, 2002,
[and that the MP was not the genuine or canonical Russian Church, etc.]
he joined ROCOR.
In 2003 he was a delegate to the ROCOR pastoral meeting in Nyack (USA), New York. He was also a
delegate to the IV All-Diaspora Council in San Francisco (USA). He did not
recognize the canonical validity of the signing of the act of the unification of the
ROCA with the MP, on May 17, 2007, by the synod of Metropolitan Laurus/Lavr (Skurla), He
was a member of the Assembly of Representatives of the ROCOR parishes
who did not accept the union with the MP on 11.07.2007 in New York. Upon his
election by the pastoral meeting of the Tavrichesko-Odessa, Ukraine diocese
and with the approval by the ROCA PSEA, on May 18, 2008, in New York City, he
was consecrated a bishop, as the Bishop, "of Bolgrad, vicar of the Tavrichesko-Odessa
diocese". At the meeting of the ROCA PSEA in May 2008, he was elected
secretary of the ROCA PSEA. At the 5th All-Diaspora Council, held from
November 18-21, 2008, at Holy Trinity Church in Astoria, New York,
and upon his approval by the Council of Bishops, he then was
elected to the Synod of Bishops of the ROCA and to be the Secretary of the Holy Synod
of the ROCA. On November 19, 2008, by the decision of the Bishops' Council, he was appointed
Ruling Bishop of the Diocese of Bolgrad with the title "Of Bolgrad and
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky". On November 10, 2011 at the Synod of Bishops meeting,
he was elected Ruling Bishop of the Chisinau diocese with the title, "Of
Chisinau and Moldovia". On May 23, 2012, by order of the Synod, he was
elevated to the rank of archbishop.
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His Eminence AFANASY/Athanasius, Bishop of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug, ruling
bishop of the Vologda diocese. Member of the Synod of the ROCA.
Russia, 160010, Vologda, the street. Chkalov, 1. Tel: 89115022155
He was born in Moscow in 1956. In 1979 he graduated from the Moscow
Textile Institute. Since 1980, he was a parishioner and communicant of a catacomb parish.
In 1986 he was ordained a priest. He studied at the architectural
faculty of the Moscow Institute of Land Management. In 1989 he was
tonsured to monasticism, and in the summer of that year, in
Transcarpathia, into the monastic rassa/mantle. In 2005, he was consecrated a bishop, as "Bishop of
Vologda". He was received into the ROCA through, hirotosis, on September 7, 2008.
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His Grace, GRIGORY, (Petrenko) Bishop of Sao Paulo and South America, the ruling
bishop of the South American Diocese and Deputy Chairman of the Synod of
the ROCA
The Right Rev. Bishop Gregor . Rua Paratinguara 151, CEP 03209-040,
Vila Alpina - Sao Paulo, SP Brasil.
Tel : 55-11-29171932; Fax : 55-11-69172180
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His Grace Bishop Kirill, Bishop of Voronezh and South-Russia, the
ruling bishop of the Voronezh diocese. Member of the Synod of Bishops of the
ROCA.
Russia, Voronezh, 394071, per. The Sniper 25.
Tel .: 4732 715786, e - mail : frroman @ vmail . en http : // web .
vrn . com / orthodox
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His Eminence NIKON, Bishop of Ishim and Siberia, the ruling bishop of
the Ishim Diocese.
November 10, 2011 at the Synod of Bishops, he was elected Ruling Bishop of the
Ishim Diocese with the title, "Of Ishim and Siberia".
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His Eminence Nicholas, Bishop of Iversky and the Black Sea, the ruling
bishop of the Prichernkomorskoe diocese.
Georgia, Poti st. 18 Bodrevtsev, 109. Tel: (995) 99445701. Russia,
Moscow region., Ramenskiy borough, village. Antonovo Str. Youth 18.
Tel:
+7 926 7577121
Bishop Nikolai, (Modebadze Nugzar Jimshcherovich) was born on February
16, 1960 in Georgia in the city of Chiatura. Since childhood, he often visited
the Mgvimsky Monastery, which was near his home. In 1977 he graduated
from high school and entered Tbilisi University. Since 1978, he was a
subdeacon at the Sion Cathedral. From 1983 to 1986, he studied at
the seminary of Holy the Apostle Andrew the First-Called at Mtskheta.
In 1985 he was transferred to the Chkondid diocese. On August 28, 1985 in
Senaki in the Teclack Monastery, Bishop Vakhtang (Akhvlediani)
ordained him a deacon and he was appointed to the city of Poti to the temple
of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. On September 13, 1986, at
the Teclack Monastery, Bishop Vakhtang ordained him as a presbyter/priest. In
1987, in the city of Poti, he physically restored the destroyed church of St. Nicholas and
was he was then appointed the rector of this church. After the restoration of the
temple, the Catholicos-Patriarch Ilya II, elevated him to the rank of
archpriest and in the same year he was awarded with a pectoral cross with jewels
and with a miter. In 1988 he was appointed dean of the Chkondid
diocese. In 1995 he was transferred to the town of Khashuri as the
rector of the church of St. John the Baptist. After seven months of
service, he was appointed rector of the two temples at Samtavis and
at Caspian. In 1996, Archbishop Vakhtang appointed him as rector of the
Atheno-Sionsky Monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of
God, and as the dean of the diocese. September 21, 1998 he was appointed
rector and dean of the church in the city of Gori. In 1998 he left the
jurisdiction of the Georgian Patriarchate and moved to his permanent
residence in Moscow. In September 1998, Metropolitan Amvrosiy
(Katamadze) tonsured him in Moscow with the name Nikolai. Since 1998,
he was in one of the non-canonical religious groups. In 2011, through
repentance, he was received by the ROCA and consecrated a bishop, a ROCA bishop, as "Bishop of Potinsky,
vicar of the Synod Chairman", to oversee the Georgian parishes which are part
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, by decree of the
ROCA Synod of Bishops.
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His Eminence ANASTASIA, Ruling Bishop of Vladivostok and Far East, the
ruling bishop of the Far Eastern-Russian Diocese.
690002, Russia, Vladivostok, Oceansky avenue, 123, sq., 40. Tel:
(4232) 426506;
+79147907748 e . mail:
bishopanastasii@mail.ru
Bishop Anastassy (in the world - Anatoly Nikolaevich Surzhik) was born
in 1946 in Vladivostok. Since 2003 - he was the ROCOR Bishop of Vladivostok and the Far
Eastern-Russian diocese. In 1974 he graduated from the Physics Department of
FENU specializing in "physics", and he worked as a school teacher. In 1976 he
received the priestly rank in the Moscow Patriarchate, and in-absentia he
graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary, and then - the Moscow
Theological Academy. In 1993, disagreeing with the policy of the
MP-Moscow church authorities, he and his parishioners left the
Moscow Patriarchate, and entered the jurisdiction of the ROCA. In 1997 he took his
monastic vows, having received the name of Anastassy. In 1999, by a decision of the
Synod of Bishops of the ROCA, he was approved as a candidate for being made a bishop.
So, in order for him to get better acquainted with the ROCA hierarchy, in the same
year, he arrived in New York City, but his episcopal consecration was delayed by the bishops, due to
his extremely harsh public attitude against the MP.
[which at that confused time-frame,
many of the ROCOR bishops were starting to take a submissive/friendly stance towards the MP]
It was obvious that such opponents of Sergianism and ecumenism as he publically was, inside of ROCOR,
were for some members of the Synod, made him seem
to them, as... undesirable. After the publication of Met. Vitaly's in
2001, his "Emergency Statement", the Holy Eusebius parish ceased to raise or commemorate in the services,
the name of their previous, ruling diocesan bishop, ROCOR Bishop Evtikhy [Kurochkin),
the traitor to the MP, and then all the ROCOR Far Eastern-Russian Deanery,- abandoned Bp. Evtikhy...then openly loyal to the MP, and moved under
the direct control of Metropolitan Vitaly [Ustinov] -then residing in Canada, and In June 2003,
Bishops Sergiy (Kindykov), Bartholomew (Vorobyov) and Antony (Rudei)
consecrated him a bishop, as "Bishop of Vladivostok and The Russian Far
East" in the Church of All Saints of the Russian Land (consecration performed in France).
Thus, the Vladivostok Archbishopric was restored, which had been part of
the ROCA since 1921. After the death, in Canada, of Metropolitan Vitaly, he took part
in the ordering [making order out of chaos] of the church administration, in his far eastern diocese, and he eventually resumed
eucharistic and prayerful full communion with Metropolitan Agafangel. And he and his flock, were received into our ROCA then.
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His Eminence ANFIM/Anthimus , Bishop of Besarabia. Vicar of the Chisinau diocese.
Republic of Moldova, Cimislia region, p. New Sagaidak. Holy
Resurrection Monastery. Tel.
+ (373) 68009359
Bishop Anfim (Tudos Adrian Vasilievich), was born on June 14, 1973 in
the Odessa region, Ukraine in his family of Orthodox Christians, and he was
baptized as a child. His higher education: From 1991-1993, he studied and
graduated from the theological seminary in Romania in the city of
Karansebesh. From 1993-1998 he studied and graduated from the State
University "Alexander Ioanne Cuza", in the Romanian city of Iasi, in
the specialty of pastoral theology. In 1994, while studying at the
Theological Faculty, on September 14, he took monastic vows with the
name Anfim in honor of the Holy Hiero-martyr Anfim, [Anthimus] in the monastery of
Chetatsuya, in the Patriarchal Romanian Church. A year later, in May 1995, he was
ordained a deacon, by MP-ROC Archbishop Vladimir (Kontorian),
of Chisinau and all Moldova, and at Pascha in 1996, he was ordained
a hieromonk, by the same bishop. July 19, 1997 he was elevated to the rank of
hegumen. From 1994-2000 he was in obedience to the vicar of Holy Trinity Men's
Monastery at the village of Rud, Dundushan district, Moldova.
He also served as the dean of the Rezinsky District. In 2000, after
learning the truth of the church, [about the full truth of what the uncanonical MP is really all about, etc.],
he stopped communicating with the
MP. After that, he was spiritually nourished in the Romanian
Old-Calendar Orthodox Church. In 2010, he was received into communion by
the ROCA, as a clergyman of the Diocese of Bolgrad, and he received the
blessing of the ruling ROCA bishop to create a men's monastic community
and so he began the construction of the Resurrection Men's
Monastery in the village of Novy Sagaydak, in the Cimisli region, of Moldova. On
09.11.2011, by a decision of The Synod of the ROCOR, he was appointed the Resident Abbot
of the Holy Resurrection Men's Monastery. On May 23, 2012, with the
blessing of the ROCA Synod, he was elevated to the rank of
an archimandrite. On his election by the pastoral meeting of the Chisinau
diocese and with the affirmative approval decision of the ROCA's Extraordinary Bishops' Council
(November 25-27, 2014), on November 30, 2014 and in his Resurrection
Monastery, Moldova, he was consecrated a bishop, as "The Bishop of Cimislia, and vicar of the
Chisinau diocese". From 04/05/2017 -he was named as, "The Bishop of Besarabia".
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Most Reverend ROMAN, Bishop of Haifa. Vicar of the Synod Chairman -(of Met. Agafangel)-
Israel, Haifa. Tel: 972-50-5370439
He was born on October 17, 1960 in the city of Haifa with Orthodox
parents. His great-grandfather Alexander Kuzma who was from Damascus, Tsar
Alexander III sent him to Kiev at the end of the 19th century, to study
theology and then, returning to his homeland, he was appointed rector of
the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Nazareth and supervisor of education
over all Russian Orthodox schools in the Holy Land, including
in Palestine and Syria. Vladyka Roman graduated from primary and high
schools in Haifa and he entered the Haifa University in the Faculty of
Philosophy and History. He left the university in 1980 for the sake of his further spiritual education
at the Holy Trinity Russian Seminary in Jordanville, New York, (USA). At
the end of his seminary studies, in 1983 he returned to his homeland. On
October 25, 1984, he was ordained a deacon by the Patriarch of Jerusalem
Diodorus the First. On April 7, 1985, he then was ordained a presbyter/priest.
He served in different parishes of the Jerusalem Patriarchate. In 2007,
he began to serve in the parish of St. George the Victorious in Jaffa
Nazareth and in 2009 he began to build a new large temple with a hall and
a hospitable-house for pilgrims. He translated several spiritual books from Russian
into Arabic. He was a member of the Jerusalem Patriarchal Church Court from 1996 to 2000. At
the end of 2012, with the blessing of the Jerusalem Patriarch, Irenaeus, he himself joined
-along with many of his parishioners from different parts of Israel, to the
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia [our ROCA under our Met. Agafangel] for principled reasons, and
was he was appointed representative of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCA in
the Holy Land (on the territory of the State of Israel and in
Palestine). July 7, 2014 he was tonsured in the monastic-mantle with the name Roman. On
July 8, 2014, after the Divine Liturgy in the church in honor of the
Archangel Michael in Odessa, Ukraine, in accordance with the decision
of the Bishops' Council of the ROCA, he was consecrated to the
episcopate.as the Bishop, "Of
the City of Haifa and in the Holy Land", and he was appointed vicar of
the Chairman of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCA, Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel.
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His Grace, Bishop John (Smelic) of Melbourne and Vicar-Bishop of the Synod Chairman.
The Right Rev. Bishop John. PO BOX 17th , PHEASANT CREEK 3757 ,
AUSTRALIA . e-mail :
frjohnsmelic@hotmail.com
Vladyka John (in the world Nikolai Alexandrovich Shmelts) was born on
24.4.55 in Melbourne (Australia). His higher education: In engineering. He
graduated from the Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville (1983-1987). His
monasticism he adopted in the Holy Land in 1990 with the name John in
honor of St. John Chrysostom, in the Hebron monastery of The Holy Fore-fathers,
The Hospitality of Abraham and Sara at the Oak of Mamre.
He was ordained as a priest in 1991, in Geneva, Switzerland, by
Archbishop Anthony of Geneva. From 1991 to 2006, he
was the confessor of the Gethsemane Convent of the Mother of God, together with
the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. From 1998 to 2000 - he was rector of the
Monastery of the Holy Monk St. Khariton -appointed there first, by Met
Laurus for the Holy Land. At the meeting of the ROCA PSEA in May
2008, he was elected a member of the ROCA PSEA and he was appointed
Administrator of the Australian Diocese. According to the Decree of
the Bishops' Council on October 30, 2016, at the ROCA Archangel Michael
Church in Odessa, he was consecrated as a bishop, by the hands of Metropolitan Agafangel and
of Archbishop George, as, "Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, and vicar of the Synod
of the ROCA."
Tel. in Australia
+61422556968. Email:
frjohnsmelic@hotmail.com
Website:
http://australiaorthodoxroca.org/
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