Family of Metropolitan Savvatiy of Buryatia. Savvaty, Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsky (Zagrebelny Sergey Nikolaevich). Under the roof of your bishop's house

In 1974 he moved to the village. Novomoskovka, Omsk district, Omsk region, where he entered school. In 1982 he moved to the Siberian Secondary School, which he graduated from in 1984 and entered the Omsk Higher Combined Arms Double Red Banner Command School. In 1988, he graduated from college with the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to serve in the Pechenga military registration and enlistment office of the Murmansk region.

In 1990 he graduated from the General Staff course. Received baptism. In 1993 he was transferred to the Novosibirsk region. in work village Chistoozernoe to the post of deputy district military commissar.

In 1994, in order to restore the church in the village. Pokrovka turned for advice to; with the blessing of the bishop he began to serve at the altar. In 1995 he was transferred to military service in the Omsk region. to the Tara military registration and enlistment office.

On July 1, 1996, he was transferred to the reserve, appointed dean of the Ust-Ishim district and rector of the St. Nicholas Church. Ust-Ishim Omsk region. with obedience to restore the wooden church of St. St. Basil's in the village. Vyatka. He organized educational conferences to help teachers of the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture, the inter-district festival of folk spiritual creativity and the children’s camp “Mercy”.

In 1999, in connection with his appointment to the village. Ust-Ishim the second priest received a blessing to move to the village. Vyatka for the establishment of a monastic community. On December 31, 2002, he was tonsured a monk. In the spring of 2005, after the Vyatka community was annexed to the Nikolsky monastery in the village. Bolshekulache, appointed to the position of rector of this monastery.

In 2006 he graduated from Tobolsk Theological Seminary.

On Easter 2007 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.

In June 2012 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

Consecrated as bishop on July 6, 2012, in the Church of All Saints, in the Land of Russia, the Patriarchal Residence in Moscow.

Bishop Savvaty of Tarsk and Tyukalinsky calls himself a village bishop, after the service in the cathedral he drinks tea with the people of God in a simple refectory, and the only privilege of the bishop is that everyone has plastic cups, but he still has a ceramic cup. Then he will get into the UAZ Patriot and drive around his diocese, which has a much more ancient history than it might seem.

The Siberian city of Tara was founded before Omsk and fought, guarding our borders, so bravely and zealously that for the first six years after its foundation they did not plow or sow here - they only fought off enemies. And they built temples - large, stone ones - which never stood empty.

Vladyka, many say, and we ourselves can see, that today the inhabitants of our country, which was once called Holy Rus', have become less pious than their pious ancestors. Why is that?

There is no determination. They ask: why are there no saints? Because there is no determination. A baby is born, and the first question that arises is: “When to feed: when he cries or on a schedule?”

Now they say: “Well, of course, whenever he wants.” And before, the saints taught feeding on a schedule.

Because in both cases the baby will receive the same amount of milk. But if you feed him when he cries, the child will understand that in order to be fed, he needs to cry. She will grow up and cry all her life.

And if he knows that his mother loves him and will definitely feed him, he just needs to wait a little and be patient, he will be patient all his life. In patience he will gain his soul, in patience he will build a home and family.

Education began in childhood. No one in the old days lived for pleasure, including the child himself. The children knew that they would be warriors.

The child was born - he was prepared for battle. His well-being lay not in his ability to have fun, satisfy his needs, expand his consumer basket and increase his wealth, but in how capable he was of standing in battle, building walls, starting a family... He had a goal from birth.

I myself graduated from military school. When I applied, the question arose: well, okay, maybe this will give me some kind of security, honor again, and so on, but what if the war starts? If I am sent to war, am I ready to die for the Fatherland?

And although I was not yet a church member and was not even familiar with the Orthodox faith, I decided for myself that yes, I was ready to die... I was already beginning to think differently, not like those who live for themselves, for the well-being of the earthly .

From childhood, a child must understand that a person must collect not in temporary categories - the number of zeros on an abacus - but in eternity. As our President recently said: our judo team has achieved great results, but why, what is the motivation? Because they went to die for Russia. Do you understand?

Speaking of the President. I have heard that the difficult economic situation in which Russia is placed is evidence and a consequence of the fact that we as a country are emerging from the Egyptian captivity of Eurolife, loans and “consumer baskets” that you mentioned. What should we do to ensure that this exit really happens, but does not drag on for 40 years?

Russian people are kind and trusting. How the Soviet people reasoned: they say, the Cold War was because we were strong, independent, and if we surrender, they won’t touch us.

So it was in the Time of Troubles, in 1612: they decided that our kings were bad - Boris Godunov was bad - so we would give ourselves to the Polish prince, and since he would be “his” prince, he would stop fighting us.

Such a Russian miracle-thinking. Holy simplicity. Stupidity, if you like, is holy.

So it was in the 1990s: now we will surrender to America wholeheartedly, and they will stop fighting us.

But a year passes, ten, twelve years pass, and they still rob us. And by 2000, the plan to launch nuclear strikes was implemented peacefully: industrial facilities were destroyed without a single nuclear strike...

The most important thing, the mercy of God, is that we saw the claws of the beast that had previously clothed itself in sheep’s clothing. The most important thing is that we woke up. How on time?

We woke up, but it’s not even a disaster that the plan for the destruction of industrial facilities was completed (under V.V. Putin, thank God, this was suspended, and much was restored and returned).

The most important destruction occurred in our hearts. Our will has collapsed. The desire for holiness was destroyed.

It is not enough for a Russian to be well-fed and rich - he needs to be either a hero or a saint.

But our sense of justice has dulled, our sense of compassion has dulled.

Of course, the media has contributed a lot to this: when a person constantly looks at the bang-bang or the cry of the slave Isaura, his heart becomes exhausted, his feelings go away, and he becomes less sensitive to everything in real life.

We need to bring the pain to life. Everything will change when a person loves with pain - his wife, his Fatherland...

Remember the gospel thief? Although he was a robber, his sinful life caused him such pain that the suffering caused by bodily pain did not quench the pain of his heart. The suffering on the cross relieved the suffering of his conscience, and he did not want to be freed from it - or, at least, did not crave it in the first place. He said: “I accept what is worthy according to my deeds, but He is condemned without sin, suffers without sin.”

It is important that we awaken love with pain, prayer with pain, not Stakhanov’s thirst and desire for work, but love for creation.

You and I need to awaken in spirit.

Suvorov said that it is not the arms, not the legs, not the head, but the immortal soul that performs feats.

Imagine, there is such love in a person that he is only looking for where he can die for his Motherland! I have the same love for my wife and for my family: what else could I do for them? I’m ready to give at least my all, but I won’t agree to anything less!

How can such a person be upset? What sorrows and troubles?

Yes, he will worry, cry with those who cry, rejoice with those who rejoice, but you won’t knock him out of the saddle, you won’t knock him out of the rut.

A person, having love for the Motherland, will cry with its sorrows, but he will be warm within its borders, and if he finds himself outside the borders of the Russian state, then there he will do work for the benefit of his dear Fatherland. And he will be sweet and joyful.

And in order for you and me to have such joy, we need to raise our needs and raise our values.

And if a person has acquired something that is valuable in eternity, something that does not depend on him, he will be calm, peaceful and ready for any tests.

Of course, such people, even in prosperous times, even in monasteries, were always a minority - and maybe even just a few.

So the Lord said: “Do not be afraid, little flock! for it has been your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom of heaven” (Luke 12:32).

And the majority have always been weak and murmuring. The majority always needed help. But, thanks to the people's spirit and understanding, they took an example to follow from these units.

A popular proverb says: “A village is not worth it without a righteous man, nor a city without a saint.” That is why feats of holiness and heroic deeds are so important. We need to have them in our field of vision so as not to get lost.

Because if a person gets lost, then no matter where he goes, he will not be at home anywhere. No matter what warm stranger’s house you come to, it will be someone else’s warmth and someone else’s comfort.

Tara diocese. One of the Siberian villages

And if a person knows that he may not soon find his home and meet his family (but it will happen sooner or later), but he knows the goal, knows the path, then every step makes him happy, because it brings him closer to home.

When you began your ministry, which bishop - perhaps glorified as a saint or not, or our contemporary - was your internal reference point? Who did you want to be like?

At that time I did not know any bishops except mine. Neither the dead nor the living, nor the saints nor the sinners. I had one bishop - mine. But I did not turn to him, but turned to God, so that God would guide me through him. One bishop was enough for me to have an example of holiness, to have a holy, heavenly blessing.

Who should a bishop be for his parishioners? In our country, a bishop is often perceived as a senior manager, a top leader.

The bishop must be a servant. The manager is a false shepherd for whom the flock is not his own. Of course, if the manager’s conscience awakens, then he will, like God, serve everyone and everything and say thank you for the purchase, not because money will fall into his pocket, but because he was glad to see the person.

I have been a village priest all my life. Now the village bishop. We lived in the village. Vyatka, where there were two houses of local residents. Where are the parishioners from? 500 kilometers from the regional center, 50 kilometers to the regional center, off-road. No benefactors, no one. They didn’t live richly, they got by somehow.

There were people who were in need and turned to us: “Help.” I couldn’t say that I didn’t have anything - if it’s just a small piece of bread, I’ll cut it in half, please! They helped.

One family has taken root with us. Husband, wife and child. We shared with them what God sent. Oil, flour, basic necessities. Well, then I hear my husband say: “This is where the priest walks around in a cassock, and comes to Omsk, takes it off, puts on jeans, gets into a foreign car and goes shopping - he has three of them - and collects profits. Otherwise, from what means could he build all this and also feed us?”

This attitude is very common.

There was a village across the Irtysh from us, I crossed by boat, they told me later - they overheard a conversation between two fishermen: “We should charge more from the priest, they pay more money.”

Maybe this is left over from Soviet times, or maybe the evil one is confusing the people, or maybe God is testing the same priest: if everyone praises, then how can we humble ourselves?

So if a village half-starved priest is perceived as some kind of top manager who goes shopping, collects money, and then spends it, then I will keep silent about what follows...

Or one priest told me: he was building a church, it was rectangular, and the locals said: “He’s building a garage for himself.” They began to build the second floor - a new explanation: “Father has so many cars, we have to build a two-story garage!” Until the dome was installed, they said it was a garage.

I became an archimandrite, I was riding on the subway with another archimandrite. I hear grandmothers say: “The archimandrite used to drive a car, but now there are no more archimandrites, there aren’t even enough cars.”

In difficult times, our Church gave birth to saints, and we still found people deeply respected by everyone, called elders, such as Archimandrite John (Krestyankin), elder Nikolai Guryanov. And now, with the availability of a huge amount of information, media opportunities, publishing...

- ...entertainment opportunities...

- ...with all these opportunities, we don’t know the people of the next, let’s say, generation behind them, who would be just as respected and revered. Why?

That they were like that became clear when they had already died, and while they lived, no one noticed them. I do not know why.

Here we had Father Alexander (Tyrtyshny) from Kolosovka, who was killed. He lived like all of us, ordinary priests, no one saw anything special in him.

He went to confess his killer, and he killed him. And before that they thought different things about him too. Now you look at his life, and it is holy, pure, without a hitch.

In recent times, God, by His mercy, hides holy people. And holy people hide their holiness. They don’t consider it sacred, and accordingly, they don’t stick it out.

Now, when with one click you can find a quote from any saint, the illusion of unnecessary advice is created. It feels like I know everything myself.

Yes, this problem exists, but it is not because there are no saints to listen to, but because there are no novices who would like to listen to them.

God is “the same yesterday and today forever.” Suppose that we are such useless slobs, but where sin increases, grace abounds - this means that for slobs, for those with even more serious illnesses, there is a need for more skillful, angelic doctors.

The Lord does not deprive the Church of this, although there have always been few of them, there has always been a shortage of them. The Lord said: “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Matthew 9:37), but, nevertheless, He sends them to us, we just do not accept them. We are proud, and therefore we are not able to see the saint.

Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsky Savvaty

They loved darkness more than light, their own opinion than advice, they loved the difficult path of justifying themselves and abandoned the path of the holy fathers to condemn themselves.
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Why there are no elders is the question of a person wavering in faith. You can say: “I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief." And God will give you an old man.

What is an elder in ancient monastic rules? Each newly arriving monk was given obedience to more experienced monks. The elder’s entire task is to ensure that the novice does not act according to his own will.

If you finished third grade, then what is the point of sending you to higher school?

The Monk Seraphim of Sarov lived with us and lived in Sarov. How many monks from Sarov approached him with questions? And outside, from outside the Sarov Monastery, up to three thousand people a day came.

Why can’t I find an elder for myself? Because I am like the monk of Sarov: the elder is here, next to me, I see him, but I don’t turn to him. A garbage can was placed on the head of the Venerable Ambrose of Optina...

Just as one and a half thousand years ago, today there is only one answer to this question: there are no elders, because there are no novices. There are no other reasons.

If I, a sinful village bishop, told you, and you seemed to listen to me with respect, but you yourself think: “I would like someone wiser,” then you have little sin. And if I were like Saint John of Tobolsk, then it would be a mortal sin - not to listen to such a thing. It's the same as not listening to the Gospel.

On Athos they say: if there is no one to ask, ask a tree stump - and it will be more saving than believing your thoughts!

You need to start with obedience to parents, teachers, leaders, husbands, and not only the meek, but also the obstinate, for this pleases God and will be good.

“Our good God is not such as to depend on a priest.”

But if you want me to start scolding the current time, let me scold. Previously, a novice did not allow himself to start reading a spiritual book without the blessing of his elder. And now we not only read all church literature, but even secular literature. It is said that whoever reads newspapers will be punished by God with spiritual hunger.

So, despite the complete abundance of everything, we have spiritual hunger.

We know everything with our minds, and ask anyone, they will tell us everything, and on the Internet it is written when to get married, when to be baptized and how to live spiritually. Everything around is strewn with spiritual food, but we don’t want this, that, or the other. Because we are looking for some kind of pleasure in the answers of the elderly, satisfaction of our desires. And sometimes the elders themselves are not needed. We would somehow be irritated by the present age and justify our lack of faith in the shepherd whom God has sent us today.

- We know that in your diocesan house there are people in need. There are a lot of them. Where do they come from?

We have two monasteries. Before sending a person to the monastery, he must pass a medical examination. And this time he is with us. Or, let’s say, he already lives in a monastery, in the forest, and he needs frequent medical care. Every day he goes to the city for medical procedures and spends money on it - the monk doesn’t have that much money. These people also live with us.

In total - fifteen people. The Lord brought them, they pray, they work, they don’t tear stars from the sky, but somehow they live.

60-70% are socially needy, but there are also those who have a house, but cannot live in the house. Someone is looking for spiritual life. The soul does not lie there, but lies here.

The Lord, when he wants to save a soul, calls it in different ways.

God wants everyone to be saved, and God’s providence is not to lay straw wherever we might fall, but to constantly present us with a choice between good and evil.

And this is how God leads us. For example, he took one by the mind: a person read a book, wanted to go to a monastery, and brought him to Himself through the mind. Another - by the belly: there is nothing to eat, but here they feed. The third has no roof over his head.

Another one’s nerves are not all right. Or drunkenness, or social problems - a person cannot socialize in society, his wife, mother, father, his own children, someone else can’t stand him... And then you look - everyone lives, and maybe not great love, but some kind of love. that is.

People live for each other.

- Under the roof of your bishop's house.

- (Laughs.) I’m the same, so I live with them.

- And eat with them at the same table.

I also want to eat constantly. (Laughs.) Three times a day, well, at least two, but no less.

It’s not an end in itself to live with them under the same roof. But if they come and say that they have nowhere to live, I won’t say that there is nowhere. If a person wants to eat, I won’t say that there is nothing: if there is enough for 15-20 people, then there will be enough for the 21st. Whether this is good or bad, I don’t know.

- Don't drive away.

If we manage to live with him, then I don’t send him away, and it doesn’t matter what kind of life he had until today. And if he doesn’t succeed and he also begins to lead the flock of Christ left and right, to spoil it, then condescension towards one should not turn into heartlessness towards many, as Athanasius of Alexandria said, if memory serves.

If one thing makes others feel bad, then we invite you to leave us. Recently one of them left and went to a rehabilitation center. The district police officer scolds us for not doing a good job. We agree, our conscience is tormenting us; indeed, there is something we haven’t completed. This happens, so the picture here is not ideal, like everywhere else - like in a family, like in a brotherhood, like in an army.

Refugee boys from Ukraine

- You still received a lot of people from Donbass.

Orthodox volunteers and I renovated an abandoned orphanage in the village of Ekaterininskoye - two three-story buildings. A month later, 1000 refugees were brought to Omsk, and we were offered to accept 100 refugees.

We placed them, the state compensated for some, not for others, and as of December 31, 2015, all funding ended.

Those who are able to work have already found work a long time ago - about three months after they arrived. And we had people with many children, pensioners, and people with disabilities gathered from all over the region. They asked for support, they have nowhere to go, now we are looking for funds. 20-30 people with children.

We are trying to create a Social Adaptation Center for Russians in need, and a shelter for pregnant women.

We created a center for volunteer assistance and social support.

We collect things, distribute them, search for them. If there are any employment or reference issues, we try to resolve them.

At first, this was all more for the Ukrainians - they lived in temporary accommodation centers. They lived for two or three months, and then, according to the logic of the law, they must go out into the world. We have created a structure that helps them after leaving the temporary accommodation facility.

- Vladyka, last question: what is Holy Rus'? Why is she a saint?

Holy Rus' is the meaning of life, a national idea that we had before Peter I, when the windows from Europe or to Europe were not yet open. This was the time of Holy Rus'.

And then this concept was revived, it was in demand when there was a dispute between Slavophiles and Westerners. By and large, there is no need to contrast them - both were patriots.

Slavophiles erected the ideals of Holy Rus' on candlesticks - in order to orient themselves, but Russia still followed the Western path: Protestantism, capitalism, communism...

And in our times, the concept of Holy Rus' is being revived. The expressions “Russian world”, “traditional values” are used - and it seems that, indeed, there is no one else in the world to preserve these values.

If in the West the media write that Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church are corrupting Europe with traditional values, then what can you say?

The biggest problem of our time is that man lives for himself. Not for your neighbor, not for God. And Holy Rus' is when a person lived for God, and the first value for him was God.

Whoever blasphemes the Holy Trinity is subject to the death penalty: although this was reflected in “Russian Truth”, it was not applied in reality, but it built up a system of values.

God comes first, then the good of society.

Holy Rus': Tara Kremlin. Here for centuries they fought to the death for Russian borders

Society as the highest value is also not bad. And now the highest value is personality. It would be good if I meant the person next to me. And now it is understood this way: I am an individual, what I like is sacred. Selfishness is the main value today.

Someone said, I don't know if it's true or not, that 50% of hospital beds in America are for the mentally ill. Half of the residents use antidepressants. If their child reaches 18 years old, they put the suitcases out the door: then go ahead and do it yourself.

And here they say: what kind of parents are they if they don’t see their children reach retirement?! This is also, of course, an excess, but it’s nicer to me: mom still has love. She feeds her child and feeds herself. She's sweet. Traditional family values ​​are Holy Rus'. Including the holy stupidity when they believed that all people are good and that it cannot be that we are being deceived.

God grant, of course, that there be not holy stupidity, but holy wisdom.

And for this you need to have a system of values, education, the foundations of Orthodox culture, the foundations of Russian spirituality. It is important not just to go to church, but to seek God, and to seek with pain and love. Then Holy Rus' will be in our hearts.

It wasn’t us who said it, people from abroad came and said that all states border on other countries, and Russia borders on the sky.

With Bishop Savvaty of Tara and Tyukalinsk
interviewed by Anastasia Rakhlina

On October 28, 2016, in the Church of All Saints, in the Land of Russia, the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in the Danilov Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' led the rite of naming Archimandrite Savvaty (Perepelkin), a clergyman of the Shuya diocese, as Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslavsky.

The naming ceremony took place in accordance with the definitions of the Holy Synod of October 21, 2016 (magazines No. 80, 81, 85).

Concelebrating with His Holiness were: Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova; Metropolitan Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Vichuga; Metropolitan Vladimir of Khabarovsk and Amur; Bishop of Kaliningrad and Baltic Seraphim; Bishop of Dmitrov Theophylact; Bishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The clergy elected to the episcopal service addressed His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the archpastors who served with His Holiness with henchman words.

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Naming word:

Your Holiness! Most Holy Lord and gracious father! God-loving archpastors!

With a special feeling of reverence for the great sacrament of episcopal consecration, I now stand before you, feeling my unworthiness. However, remembering that the power of God “is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9), I am ready to bear this new church obedience for me in order to become a good worker in God’s field of saving people.

I was born into a military family and spent my childhood in the military camp of the Irkutsk Military Aviation School among cadets, officers and members of their families. Therefore, when choosing a future profession, I decided to devote my life to serving the Motherland in the ranks of the Armed Forces.

Remembering my life today, I see in it the action of God’s Providence through my teachers and mentors in educational institutions, commanders in military service, my classmates and friends. Through communication with them, my worldview and perception of the modern world gradually changed. Reading the Gospel, spiritual literature, visiting churches and monasteries, meeting with clergy and monastics brought me ever closer to a conscious faith in God, and later prompted me to leave military service and devote the rest of my life to serving the Lord.

With the blessing of Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin), I entered the brotherhood of the Nikolo-Shartom Monastery, where I became a monk and was ordained to the priesthood.

Thanks to the missionary activities of the monastery, several farmsteads were founded on the territory of the Ivanovo region, which carried out active spiritual work. By the grace of God, I was entrusted with the obedience of the confessor and the rector of the monastery farmsteads.

In October 2011, I was sent to the Khabarovsk diocese, where I was involved in the construction of churches, and later was appointed dean of the Eastern district of the Khabarovsk diocese.

For five years now I have been on the far borders of our Fatherland, on the coast of the Tatar Strait, connecting the Sea of ​​Japan and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. I am glad that during this time the number of churches has increased, the flock has grown, more children began to study Orthodox culture in schools.

Your Holiness! Let me sincerely thank you and the Holy Synod for electing me to the newly formed department as part of the Amur Metropolis. In this election, I see an expression of your concern for the strengthening and spread of the Orthodox faith in the Far East.

The great trust placed in me prompts me to exert all my strength to justify it in the hope of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Humbly bowing my head before the lot that has befallen me, I ask for your holy prayers, may the Almighty Lord grant me His grace, “healing the weak and replenishing the impoverished.”

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Born on September 1, 1968 in the family of a clergyman (father Gennady Nikolaevich Antonov - rector of the Vvedensky Cathedral). In 1985 he graduated from high school, in 1986-1988 he served in the army in the Air Force.

On August 20, 1989, Archbishop Varnava (Kedrov) of Cheboksary and Chuvashia tonsured him into monasticism with the name Savvaty in honor of the Venerable Savvaty of Solovetsky. That same year, on August 27, he was ordained a hierodeacon, and on October 22, a hieromonk, and on November 1, he was appointed priest of the Vvedensky Cathedral in Cheboksary.

In 1993 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary.

On July 30, 1993, Hieromonk Savvaty was appointed abbot of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Cheboksary and elevated to the rank of abbot. In 1996 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

In 2004 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy.

On January 30, 2005, Archimandrite Savvaty was consecrated Bishop of Alatyr, vicar of the Cheboksary diocese. The ordination in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was led by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', co-served by other hierarchs.

On October 10, 2009, by decision of the Holy Synod, Bishop Savvaty was appointed to the newly formed Ulan-Ude and Buryat See.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of December 27, 2011, he was confirmed as rector (holy archimandrite) of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Posolsky Monastery in the village of Posolskoye, Kabansky District, Republic of Buryatia, and the Holy Trinity Selenginsky Monastery, village of Troitskoye, Pribaikalsky District, Republic of Buryatia.

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On February 1, 2014, during the Divine Liturgy on the fifth anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, His Holiness the Patriarch elevated Savvaty, Bishop of Ulan-Ude and Buryat to the rank of Archbishop

Savvaty, Antonov Sergey Gennadievich, was born in the city of Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, on September 1, 1968, in the family of a clergyman. From 1975 to 1985 he studied at secondary school No. 3 in Cheboksary. In 1986-1988 he served in the Soviet army, in the Air Force, in Primorye. He was tonsured a monk with the name Savvaty, in honor of the Venerable Savvaty of Solovetsky, on August 20, 1989 by Archbishop Varnava of Cheboksary and Chuvashia. On August 27, 1989 he was ordained as hierodeacon by Archbishop Varnava of Cheboksary and Chuvashia, and as hieromonk on October 22, 1989. On November 1, 1989, by decree of the Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvashia, Varnava was appointed to the position of an ordinary clergyman of the Cathedral of the Entry into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cheboksary. On July 30, 1993, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Alexy II was appointed abbot of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Cheboksary and elevated to the rank of abbot. In 1993 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary, in 2004 - from the Moscow Theological Academy. In 1996, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy elevated him to the rank of archimandrite. On January 30, 2005, at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Archimandrite Savvaty was consecrated as Bishop of Alatyr, vicar of the Cheboksary diocese. The consecration was performed by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy and the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. By the decision of the Holy Synod of October 10, 2009, he was appointed ruling bishop of the newly formed Ulan-Ude and Buryat diocese.

On January 30, 2014, the 32nd week after Pentecost, on the day of celebrating the 9th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of Bishop Savvaty of Ulan-Ude and Buryat, the ruling bishop celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Odigitrievsky Cathedral of the city of Ulan-Ude.

Savvaty: Dear brothers and sisters! No matter how much you try to express everything that is in your heart, you still cannot express it. The love that is stored in the heart is difficult to show. Let us remember the hero of the legend about Danko, who took out his heart, which was blazing and lighting the way for people. Life is so arranged that a person cannot live without a heart. But this legend has a very good, deep philosophical meaning. Indeed, a person who has love for his neighbor begins to glow! Even those who have the most primitive form of love, say for one person, for their spouse - even such people glow! And if you are next to a holy person, you feel the light from him, you feel the grace from him that enters his heart and overflows it! Which pours out around! Let us remember St. Seraphim of Sarov! Let us remember today's saint - St. Anthony the Great, one of the founders of monasticism. When you see such people, when you are next to them, they really sanctify your path and you want to be like them, you want to be next to this light. And I wish, dear brothers and sisters, that each of us - both me and everyone who stands here - will find this real, sincere and genuine Christian love! So that a person, radiating it, would attract even more people to God. Because we can only bring people to Christ through love!

Materials from the website of the Ulan-Ude and Buryat Diocese were used