FAMOUS
EXORCIST OF
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS
Archimandrite
German,
a resident of the Saint Sergius Holy Trinity lavra, renowned as
an exorcist,
died from complications caused by the coronavirus, the official
website of the
monastery reports.
"The
brothers of
the cloister grieve for the loss of Father German and they
request prayers for
the newly reposed servant of God," the report says.
Archimandrite
German
was famous among Orthodox believers for the fact that he
regularly performed in
the Peter and Paul church near the lavra the ritual of "healing
those
afflicted by unclean spirits." In the church this ritual is also
called
"exorcism of the demon possessed." (tr. by PDS, posted 8 August
2020)
METROPOLITAN
OF KUBAN
ISIDOR DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS
Metropolitan
of Ekaterinodar
and Kuban Isidor died from complications caused by the
coronavirus, the
official website of the Kuban metropolitanate reported.
"On 8
August
2020, after a short, critical illness, in the 80th year of his
life the
chairman of the Supreme Church Court of the Russian Orthodox
Church and head of
the Kuban metropolitanate, Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and
Kuban Isidor went
to be with the Lord," the diocese reports.
Metropolitan
Isidor
(secular name Nikolai Vasilevich Kirichenko) was born 25 May
1941 in the
village of Veimarn of Kingisepp district of Leningrad oblast.
In 1973
he was
elevated to the rank of hegumen and in 1977 to the rank of
archimandrite. In
the same year 1977 he was consecrated bishop of Arkhangelsk and
Kholmogory. In
1985 he acquired the title of bishop of Arkhangelsk and
Murmansk.
Vladyka
Isidor was
appointed bishop of Krasnodar and Kuban in 1987. In 1989 he
became an
archbishop. And in 2001 he was elevated to the rank of
metropolitan.
In 2013
the Synod
appointed him head of the Kuban metropolitanate. He was
entrusted also with the
administration of the Tikhoretsk and Armavir dioceses. (tr. by
PDS, posted 8
August 2020d
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