VERTOGRAD
Orthodox Journal
Newsletter No. 48, Sunday, March 25, 2006. 10:10 P.M.
- Mertopolitav Valentinn admitted to hospital
- Monastic Vows Taken in Suzdal
MERTOPOLITAV VALENTINN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
(Vertograd, Suzdal)
Mertopolitav Valentinn of Suzdal and Vladimir, First-Hierarch of ROAC, was admitted to hospital on Mach 21. He has problems with his right leg now. Doctors had to amputate his big toe and some part of the left foot due to bone necrosis in February. Most of the time since September 2006 Metropolitan Valentine has to spend in hospitals due to crucial exacerbation of diabetes.
Metropolitan Valentine is planning to stay in the hospital till the beginning of April and then he will return to Suzdal.
MONASTIC VOWS TAKEN IN SUZDAL
(Suzdal Diocesian Bulletin – NFTU – Vertgograd, Suzdal)
On March 16 in the Tsar-Constantine Cathedral, ryasophor priestmonk Fr Jonas Rosokha was brought into the monasticism with the blessing of Metropolitan Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir. The priestmonk was tonsured by Archbishop Theodore of Borisovosk and Otradnoe, secretary of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, after Vespers. The new hieromonk was named Mark after St.Mark of Thrace and was registed to the brotherhood of the monastery of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Suzdal.
Hieromonk Mark was born in 1957 in Tomsk. In 1997 he became a parishioner of the ROCOR's Siberian diocese. In the same year he was tonsured and ordained a priest by Bishop Evtikhy. In 1999, Father John was accepted in The Suzdal Diocese of tbe Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church and served in the city of Armavir in the South of Russia. He will continue to serve in Armavir.