New bishop

[Julianna]

News from Vladika's Sermons

Our Church has a new bishop.  His name is Bishop Sebastian of Cheliabinsk.  He was ordained in Suzdal. Please pray for him.

[Savva24]

News from Vladika's Sermons

Our Church has a new bishop.  His name is Bishop Sebastian of Cheliabinsk.  He was ordained in Suzdal. Please pray for him.

Wow! now your Church has more bishops than faithful, thats amazing

Just a joke, I hope you can take it that way :mrgreen:

In Christ,

Nicholas (Savva)

[Natasha]

I would hope that everyone could respect Julianna and the ROAC. Respect doesn't mean that you have to agree with their church, however, I don't think that it is right to mock them. I find it surprising that in another thread so many people were condeming others for their harsh words about another board member, yet people continue to make light of this subject! I think it is very insensitive.

[OrthodoxyOrDeath]

Julianna,

Are there any pictures? I'm sure Olga was there like the paparatzi (sp?).

In our synod, Bishops are sometimes given a See in Greece, even if they are in America and have nothing relatively to do with Greece. One of our bishops in America is Bishop Christodoulos of Theopolis, who is a fine and outstanding man. Theopolis however, is, I am sure, a speck somewhere on the Greek map.

Is this the same for this bishop, does he have a See in Russia or elsewhere?

[Methodius]

RRN -[A NEW] BISHOP ... AMONG SUZDAL[ITES]
Portal-credo.ru
23 July 2003

A new bishop of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous church (RPATs) was ordained in Suzdal on 17 July by decision of the bishops' council of this church. He was Archimandrite Sevastian Zhatkov, rector of the RPATs parishes in Cheliabinsk and Cheliabinsk province, Vertograd reports.

In the evening on the eve of the commemoration day of St. Evfimy the Wonder Worker of Suzdal, whose relics are located in the Emperor Constantine cathedral church of Suzdal, after the all-night vigil the ordination of Archimandrite Sevastian as bishop of Cheliabinsk, a vicar of the Suzdal diocese, was conducted. On the next day Archimandrite Sevastian signed the bishop's oath and after the divine liturgy his installation was conducted by Metropolitan Valentin of Suzdal and Vladimir, the first hierarch of RPATs, Archbishop Feodor of Borisovsk and Sanin, Archbishop Serafim of Sukhumy and Abkhazia, Bishop Irinarkh of Tula and Briansk, and Bishop Amvrosy.

Presenting the newly installed bishop his archpastor's staff, Metropolitan Valentin warned Bishop Sevastian of those difficulties that he will have to endure in order to testify to true Orthodoxy in the contemporary, apostate world, and he wished for him to bear the cross of archpastoral ministry steadfastly, trusting not in himself and his own strength but only in the help and mercy of Almightly God.

Bishop Sevastian was born in 1941, graduated from the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy, and then became a cleric in the Cheliabinsk diocese of RPTsMP, where he was vigorously engaged in opening new churches, assembling parishes, and putting church life in order. However after some time he was unjustly slandered, suffered repression from the diocesan authorities, and spent six months in prison awaiting trial. In 2000 he was raised to rank of hegumen through repentance in RPATs and after a year he was elevated to archimandrite by Metropolitan Valentin. At the present time Bishop Sevantian has three parishes, in Cheliabinsk, Zlatoust, and Sarpyzy (Cheliabinsk province). Persons of the intelligentsia predominate in his flock.