Evlogy Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Evlogy Georgievsky. In the world of Georgievsky Vasily Semenovich, was born on April 10 in the village of Somovo, Odoevsky district of the Tula province in the family of priest Simeon Georgievsky. There were eleven children in the family, four of them died in infancy for eight years [1]. Vasily Georgievsky was probably a second child in the family, after him nine more children were born, of whom six five boys and one girl survived [2]; for the year of the b.

Evlogi mentions his three brothers without a decree. Presumably, they could be priests Pavel OK. In his youth, he often visited the Optina deserts and the great elder of this monastery of Ambrose, who revealed him with the spiritual beauty of monasticism. The Great Elder laid down was finally approved by one archpastor who subsequently participated in his serotonia at the bishop. According to his testimony, the future Metropolitan realized that shepherd, as the highest ministry of the love of Christ, requires primarily from its ministers of self -denial, that asceticism is a significant, most important property of the pastoral mood and the main foundation of pastoral activity, realized that the cause of spiritual revival and salvation can be possible only through the killing of a personal self -loving life.

It became clear to him that the life of a monk-pastor, engaged with the church and surrounded by "church-like children's children," is full of such a wealth of internal content, which casts out of the heart a sense of spiritual loneliness and with excess fills the lack of joys of family life. However, a complete coup in his soul to monastic life occurred after a spiritual school. In the year he graduated from the Belevsky Theological School, in the year of the Tula Theological Seminary as the first student, and in the year the Moscow Theological Academy as a candidate of theology, his dissertation was dedicated to St.

Tikhon Zadonsky. At the end of the Academy, he was appointed on March 12 of the year as an assistant to the caretaker of the Efremov Theological School, and in the year the teacher of the Tula Theological Seminary. In the year, he was appointed rector of the Kholm theological seminary with the construction of Archimandrite to the rank of Archimandrite. Being the rector of the seminary, Father Evlogy began to enter into communication with his future flock, attended rural temple and local holidays, performed worship, pronounced preaching, talked with peasants, and he met their life, views and needs.

The state of the Kholmsky common people, who survived the centuries-old spiritual and material yoke of the Polish priests and landowners, and almost lost Russian self-awareness, instilled in it the determination to arouse in it the Orthodox-Russian self-consciousness and improve its financial situation. The archpastor of Kholmshchina on January 12, Hirotonisan in Bishop Lublinsky, Vicar of the Kholm diocese.

Bishop’s ministry, Vladyka Evlogy, began a matter of benefactor: on the funds he donated in the dining room of trusteeship about folk sobriety on January 12, tea and snacks were issued to the poorest residents of the hill without distinction of confessions. Since July 18 - Bishop of Kholmsky and Lublin. Having become an independent bishop, Vladyka Evlogius immediately began fulfilling his desires.

Prophetic temples were erected in a short time, their generous philanthropists from Russia and local were involved in the construction and decoration. A wide church and educational activity developed rapidly, the parish schools of higher and lower types increased, periodicals arose: “Church Life” Kholmskaya, with the “People’s Leaf”, “Brotherly Conversation”, “Holmsk Rus”. The activity of parish fraternities was revived through its unification through the Kholmsk Bogoroditsky Brotherhood.

According to the Vladyka and with his active participation, new charitable and educational organizations arose: the Kholmsk women's charitable society; The people's educational society of Kholm Rus; Kholm archive commission. Congresses of local figures gathered annually in the hill to discuss issues of church and public life, which were almost always chaired by Vladyka.

To improve the economic condition of the population,: the Kholmsky agricultural company of mutual loan were established; Firmamenty partnership for the purchase and parcel sale of estates to Orthodox farmers; The Russian agricultural society of Kholmshchina and Podlyshya to improve the peasant economy. All these institutions were organized with energetic assistance and generous donations of the Lord.

Many undertakings for the benefit and prosperity of the Kholm Territory greeted hot sympathy and active assistance from the Lord. At the same time, he did not leave the pastoral care of his diocese: he served and preached on all Sundays and holidays solemn liturgy in the Kholm Cathedral; Often visited spiritual, educational and secular institutions, attended exams and school holidays; Several times during the year he made trips along the diocese, audited parishes, experienced students under the Law of God.Bishop Evlogy was one of the most active bishops of the Russian Church of that time.

The love of the common people for the Lord was great and when the Russian population of Kholmshchina and Podlyasha received the right to have a special representative in the State Duma, then the Vladyka Evlogius became a chosen one from the Orthodox population of the Lublin and Sedletsky province. In the Duma, he joined the moderately-right and put forward the idea of ​​the allocation of Kholmshchina from the Kingdom of Poland, which then did not take the form of the bill.

The Duma of the 2nd convocation did not last long, but in the same year the Vladyka was elected to the III State Duma, where he was a member of the faction of moderately right, and then, after education, a member of the Council of the faction of the Mide-right and nationalists. The bill adopted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and adopted by the Duma in the year on the allocation of the Kholm province is largely his case, he campaigned for him also within his diocese, claiming that he favors the interests of the Russian peasantry.

Vladyka also worked in the commissions: the religious chairman of the commission, land, Old Believers, legislative assumptions. From law-nationalist positions he acted on the issue of zemstvo in the Western provinces on May 12. He was a categorical opponent of the bill on the freedom of transition from one religion to another, which was discussed on May 30, defended parish schools, defended an increase in the content of the clergy, etc.

He refused the election to the IV Duma. He took part in the law-monarchical movement. As a member of the state. Duma, regularly participated in the meetings of the Russian Assembly PC, served a prayer service at the opening of the PC gymnasium, and then conducted an interview on spiritual and moral topics with gymnasium students. He sent his blessing to the 1st All-Russian Congress of Russian People in St.

Petersburg on February 8-12 of the All-Russian Congress of the Russian Assembly, which was transferred by the Congress delegate, Chairman of the Warsaw Department of PC prof. He also sent a “hot greeting” to the congress of Russian people in Moscow on September 27 - October 4. He was the first chairman of the "Society of the Creation of the Anglican Church with the Orthodox", which was opened in January.

Since the year, one of the leaders of the Union of the Russian People. In the year he was entrusted with the temporary department of the Kholm diocese. During the First World War, he lived all the time in the frontline lane, more than once visited the front. After the February Revolution of the Year, as the Vladyka recalled: “Harming began against me. They called the "Black Hundred", "old -regime".

According to my political beliefs, I was a monarchist monarchical beliefs organically, under the influence of a number of conditions and circumstances of my life ”[4]. However, it was not possible to remove him from the department. The first free diocesan congress of the Volyn clergy, who passed on April 17, expressed confidence in him and asked the Holy Synod to leave him on Volyn "as an archpastor of his beloved, respected and sincerely desired by the desired." He participated in the preparation of the Holy Council of the Orthodox Church in the years and took part in it, being the chairman in the department of worship, preaching and church art.

He was a supporter of the patriarchate. Evlogi Georgievsky, in prison and abroad during the civil war, lived in Kyiv occupied by the Germans, where on December 4, he was arrested by the Petliurians and, together with the Archbishop Anthony, was taken to Poland, then to Austria and Romania. They were imprisoned in the Buchach monastery along with Bishop Bishop, who were later brought from Kyiv by the Chigirinsky Nicodemus and his hierodeacon Nikolai and brought from Pochaev by Archimandrite Vitaliy and Hieromonk Tikhon.

Then Vladyka Evogiy was for some time in prison in Krakow. After a 9-month imprisonment, at the request of the Entente countries, he was released and arrived in Novorossiysk in September. The archbishop of Alexy and Vladimir Purishkevich was buried. Zhevakhov emigrated to Serbia. He opened the congress of the economic restoration of Russia in the city of Reichengall Bavaria on May 29 - June 4, during which a prayer service and a requiem for all for faith, the king and the fatherland of his stomach to the laid.

For some time he lived in Berlin, then settled in Paris, where he organized the Theological Institute, in which Sergius Bulgakov, Anton Kartashev and other famous philosophers and theologians taught. After the release of the Metropolitan’s declaration, Sergius turned into opposition to him. In February, Metropolitan Evlogy moved with his parishes to the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople.

Of the Russian parishes in Western Europe, the “temporary exarchata” followed by Metropolitan Evlogy, which followed Metropolitan, was formed. He transferred his separation from the Moscow Patriarchate with extreme soreness, but he would be dishonest to leave tens of thousands of soldiers, because he believed that otherwise they would go "even worse."About Metropolitan of Sergius, with whom he had long been associated with the bonds of personal friendship, spoke with lacrimal excitement, the discrepancy with him was his spiritual tragedy, but he prayed a lot and diligently for him alone.

If the pre -revolutionary St. Petersburg diocese did not count in Western Europe and ten parishes, with it their number has grown to almost a hundred. He always demanded that the temple be not only a prayer house, but also the center of Russian culture, Russian propaganda, and its first care was the same children, the desire to protect them from denationalization. During the Great Patriotic War, Metropolitan Evlogius behaved as a Russian patriot.

For him, this meant the support of the USSR and he received a Soviet passport one of the first of the Western European Russian Emigrant community in the year. The assessments of Metropolitan Manuel Lemeshevsky was abroad, he was widely and generously clowned with the "powerful of this world", his authority was exceptional in the circles of the alos. But invariably he strove for a “simple man” all his life, and the easier a man was, the more freer he was with him.

It noted the simple -mindedness of the unassumiveness that came to naivety. He did not notice the taste and qualities of food - even though asceticism was completely alien to - the “Metropolitan chambers” of him were more modest than the gatehouse in a different temple, and his favorite vestments were from a rough harsh canvas. He loved children and became equal to them in their society.

In recent months, when he had already accepted almost anyone, the children invariably had access to him. At the same time, behind his external simplicity, he was educated, inquisitive and liberal.

The first allowed the radio broadcasting of church services. He said: "Once they fought against electricity. But in fact, all power, useful to a person and improving a person - from God." He knew secular literature and followed it. He was invariably admired by Pushkin, in which he discovered more and more new treasures, loved Tolstoy, Melnikov-Pechersky, Leskov. I did not tolerate flattery.

Herry of power was alien, but by its nature he was powerful. In conversations, he loved to recall seminars and poor youth, to tell about his young meetings with the later church hierarchs of his generation, about the State Duma and his work in Kholmshchina. He did not refuse a glass of vodka, but he preferred a mountain ash, which he called the "priestly drink" and "Drozdovka" - because the drozds pecking the mountain ash and for the fact that the stern Metropolitan Filaret of Drozdov did not tolerate alcohol.

He loved, according to Russian custom, gifts, but he gave widely, and Easter and New Year's packages to Russian tuberculosis lovingly composed himself. He was unusually kind, disinterested, widely generous, attentive to the interlocutor, loved to reconcile, and especially - to crown. For all the employment of complex and hard and great administrative work, the "fun of the spiritual" was always and invariably full.

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