One Year Memorial Vladyka Anfim

***Joanna, post THIS ONE: The One Year Memorial Anniversary of the Passing to the Lord, of our Greatly Beloved Vladyka, Bishop of Bessarabia, ANFIM-MEMORY ETERNAL!- Vechnaya Pamyat! and May He Rest With The Saints!...Our Loss, but Heaven's gain!

From: Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> 

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2021-10-25    14:25 GMT-05:00

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ROCOR: Today is one year since the death of Bishop Anfim

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October 24, 18th Sunday after Pentecost, marks the anniversary of the death of His Grace Anfim/Anthimus, the former Bishop of Bessarabia. In the Men’s Holy Resurrection Monastery, in Moldova, after the Divine Liturgy, the clergy of the monastery - Hieromonks Glykeria and Sophroniy, together with the inhabitants and parishioners, prayed at the grave of Vladyka, the Litia/Memorial Prayers for the Departed, for the blessed repose of his soul. After the requiem, a memorial meal was offered to all, in his honor.

Everlasting Memory! Vechnaya Pamyat!

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ORIGINAL MEMORIAL, AT HIS PASSING:

Shared by Reader Daniel Everiss in Oregon:

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2020

Vladyka Anfim: MEMORY ETERNAL!

ORIGINAL MEMORIAL, AT HIS PASSING

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SHARING: IN MOURNING AND LOVING MEMORY OF A GOOD MAN, RECENTLY SUDDENLY DEPARTED, BELOVED VLADYKA ANFIM: MEMORY ETERNAL!

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My personal comment:

Greatly respected and beloved by all, our big-hearted and devoted ROCOR Bishop Anfim (Anthimus) of Bessarabia, Moldova,  was recently unexpectedly taken from us by the Covid pandemic, and his quick passage from our midst is a great loss for his local flock in Moldova and for our entire world-wide  Russian Orthodox Church Abroad,  and as he was only 48 years of age. He greatly loved God and His saints, he greatly loved the Orthodox Church, and people, and he never ceased to build and beautify the houses of God, and to be a constant missionary for saving souls....even to far away Congo, Africa..

His very face radiated God's love, and his own.

He was the Gospel's image of what the leaders of our faith should be, a true humble follower and imitator of Our Lord Jesus Christ, He "Who gave himself for the life of the world".

Vladyka Anfim truly gave himself for his flock.

This very intelligent and learned scholar  was fluent in many languages, and

steeped in his knowledge and practice of the Orthodox Christian Way of Life.

He was, in short, The Good Bishop, The Good Shepherd of his flock....a true reflection of His Father in Heaven. He was "a man for all seasons".

He even in person reached out to some of the leaders of our

ROCOR's "Andronik-Mt. View" lamentable and totally unjustified schism here in North America, to appeal to them, in love, to return to our fold, but...they closed their ears and would not heed his loving appeal, as they also have not heeded this same appeal which our entire ROCOR Synod has repeatedly beseeched them so to do, for some years now.

They are thus in the end, the big losers, likely to be soon openly & proudly aligned with Moscow's KGB founded and still totally controlled Moscow Patriarchy and its true 'patriarch', Vladimir Putin..

Now, Heaven is the gainer  by his passage from us, but we still who are struggling in this transient life, are the losers, of one, next to our beloved Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel, of our brightest and most out-going missionary bishops.

Dear newly departed to the Lord, beloved by all, Vladyka Anfim,

May God forgive all of your sins of your short life on earth, and may you indeed Rest With The Saints, and Memory Eternal, and we will not forget your short but blessed life nor your devotion to Christ's Holy Church.

Your loving smiling face, we will not forget. You were the candle which could not be hid under the bushel.

Clearly, you were too good, for God to allow you to continue in this sinful world, and so He has taken you to be with Him, as you were perfected in a short time, at your youthful age of only 48 years.

With a sense of mournful sadness and loss, yet with hope in the Resurrection, -which was the dedication of your monastery, and in which hope you daily lived,

Retired Reader Daniel Everiss in Oregon, U.S.A.

Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication:24 october 2020... Category: ROCOR

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Today, on October 24 at 4 pm, after a serious illness, at the age of 48, he passed away to the Lord

Right Reverend ANFIM,

bishop of Bessarabia

Kingdom of heaven! Eternal peace!

  Bishop Anfim (Tudos Adrian Vasilievich), was born on June 14, 1973 in the Odessa region, Ukraine into a family of Orthodox Christians, was baptized in childhood.

 Higher education. 

 1991-1993 studied and graduated from the theological seminary in Romania in the city of Caransebes. 

 1993-1998 studied and graduated from the State University "Alexandru Ioann Cuza", in Romania in the city of Iasi, specializing in 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 schema martyr  monk  Anfima, at the Chatatsuya Monastery, Romanian Church. 

  A year later, 1995, in May, on the feast day of St. Nicholas was ordained a deacon by Archbishop Vladimir (Kontoryanu), Chisinau and All Moldova, ROC MP, and on Pascha 1996 he was ordained a hieromonk by the same bishop. 

  On July 19, 1997 he was elevated to the rank of hegumen. 

1994-2000 he fulfilled the obedience of the  rector  of St. Trinity men's. monastery in the village of Rud, Dundushan region, Moldova. Also, he performed the duties of the Dean of the Rezinsky District. 

  In 2000, having learned the truth of the Church, he stopped communicating with the MP. Then he was spiritually nourished in the Romanian Old Calendar Orthodox Church. 

  In 2010 he was admitted to communion with the ROCOR, a cleric of the Bolgrad diocese and received the blessing of the ruling bishop to create a men's  monastic community and the beginning of the construction of the Resurrection men's monastery in the village of New Sagaidak, Chimislia region, Moldova. 

  From 09.11.2011 By the Synod of the ROCOR, the monastery's founder was appointed abbot-rector  of the Resurrection. Monastery. 

  On May 23, 2012, with the blessing of the ROCOR Synod, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. On the election of the pastoral conference of the Chisinau diocese and by decree of the extraordinary Council of Bishops (November 25-27, 2014), 

  On November 30, 2014 at the Resurrection Monastery, Moldova, he was ordained Bishop of Chimislia, vicar of the Chisinau diocese. 

  From 04/05/2017 - Bishop of Bessarabsky.

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From the Wisdom of Solomon, (Old Testament Book in the Orthodox Bible): and thinking of departed & greatly beloved Vladika Bishop  Anfim, of Bessarabia, Moldova:

"1. But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

 2. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, 3. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. 4. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. 5. And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. 6. As gold in the furnace hath He tried them, and received them as a burnt offering. 7. And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble. 8. They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. 9. They that put their trust in Him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with Him: for grace and mercy is to His saints, and He hath care for his elect."

"Blessed are they whom Thou has chosen and taken O Lord! Their memorial is from age to age".