Evloghios Hessler

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Evloghios Hessler , born Klaus-Augustin Hessler (* 21st February 1935 in Dortmund , † 20th January 2019 ) was a German priest and senior Metropolitan of the non-canonical themselves but as autocephalous understanding Orthodox Metropolitan of Aquileia and Western Europe.

Life

Klaus-Augustin Hessler was born into a Roman Catholic family. He studied Catholic theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome .

After a while he converted to the Orthodox Church and was ordained a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Exarchate of Western Europe in 1971 . He was initially a priest in Italy and in 1975 became archimandrite of an Orthodox monastery . For this he took the spiritual name Eulogios .

After a few years he moved to the Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece (Chrysostomos Synod) and became Bishop of Milan and Lombardy in the metropolitan area of ​​Western Europe in 1984 . In 1985 he left the Greek Church with the Metropolis and was appointed Archbishop of Milan.

In 1990 he and other clergy founded the metropolitan area of ​​Aquileia and Western Europe after the previous metropolitan Gabriele had left the metropolitan area with two bishops and their eparchies. He became the new chief metropolitan of the metropolitan area of ​​Aquileia.

In 1994 he was able to place the metropolis under the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate . In 1997, he disbanded after Patriarch Philaret asked him to take off his koukoulion (head covering) and to separate from the North American dioceses, as they used the Western Orthodox rite instead of the Byzantine rite in the liturgy.

In 2011 Metropolitan Evloghios tried to subordinate the Metropolis of Aquileia to the Russian Orthodox Church . To this end, in 2012 he renounced his rank as Metropolitan and Archbishop and appeared as Archimandrite. In 2013 he again assumed the status of metropolitan and archbishop after the Patriarchate of Moscow had shown no more serious efforts to bring the churches together.

Web links

Commons : Evloghios (Hessler)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The story of the creation of the Holy Synod of Milan on Anti-Raskol (Russian). Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
  2. ^ Official website of the Synod of Milan and Longobardia. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Original petition for admission to the Russian Orthodox Church. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Primate "of the Holy Synod of Milan" renounced his dignity "as archbishop". Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Metropolitan Eulogy (Hessler) restores the Synod of Milan. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hessler, Evloghios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessler, Klaus-Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and leading metropolitan of the autocephalous Orthodox metropolis of Aquileia and Western Europe
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2019