Monastery of St. Job of Pochayev
The Monastery of St. Job von Pochayev or Monastery Obermenzing is a male monastery belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROKA) in the Munich district of Obermenzing . It is also the residence of Metropolitan Mark , who heads the Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Orthodox Bishop of Berlin and Germany .
Emergence
The orthodox monastery in Munich-Obermenzing has existed since 1945. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Blutenburg in Obermenzing.
Originally, this monastery of monks who after the October Revolution in Russia had fled, was established in 1926 in eastern Slovakia. At the end of the war, more than 40 monks belonged to the brotherhood, who then fled again from the Red Army to the west and re-established their monastery in Munich at the end of 1945. Only a few elderly monks lived in the monastery for decades.
In 1980 the then bishop and today's Metropolitan Mark, the current head of the German diocese, moved to the monastery, whereupon the community, which currently consists of 10 monks, began to grow again.
Current buildings
The current buildings once served as the home of the Hitler Youth . They were expanded by the monks themselves after the war. The former gymnasium became a church in honor of St. Job of Pochayev . The church contains an iconostasis with icons by Father Kiprian (then in Geneva) and frescoes by the monks. The site also houses the modest accommodations for the currently around a dozen monks, guest rooms, a printing press and a candle making factory. In the years after 1980 the monastery and the church were renovated and expanded. The old printing house was also renewed.
Since the buildings are dilapidated and now too small, a new building is planned. However, this is facing great difficulties on the part of the local building commission and the State Office for Monument Preservation.
Spiritual center
The importance of the monastery for the diocese is that potential candidates for the priesthood can live in the monastery and receive their theological and practical training here. Since 1980 several candidates have been prepared for the priesthood. Candidates for the priesthood often take advantage of distance learning opportunities at the spiritual seminary of Moscow's Sretensky Monastery.
As a spiritual center, the monastery plays an important role not only for the German diocese, but also for neighboring European countries. Since the collapse of communism in the Eastern European countries, visitors and pilgrims have come from these countries very often . Many of the pilgrims stay for a few days, others for weeks as guests in the monastery and take part in monastic life.
On November 10th (October 28th according to the Julian calendar ) the monastery celebrates the patronage festival, the festival of St. Job of Pochayev .
Economy
The monastery operates a candle foundry , from which the ROKA congregations obtain their candles, and incense is also produced. The monastery printing house was modernized in the mid-1980s and since then Orthodox literature has been published in German and Russian. The monastery has a small publisher and publishes the series of books Encounter with Orthodoxy , as well as liturgical literature, prayer books, church calendars and the like.
The monastery is formally supported by the Russian Orthodox Church Foundation for Science, Monument Preservation and Charity based in Bad Honnef .
The messenger
The bimonthly diocesan magazine ( Vestnik / Bote) is the only periodical printed in the monastery . “The Messenger of the German Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad” - so the official title - is printed and financed by the brotherhood of the monastery of St. Job von Pochayev.
literature
Monastery of St. Job of Počaev. Klosterverlag, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-935217-62-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the short description http://www.rocor.de/Roka/kloster.html ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ See Biography of Archbishop Mark.
- ↑ a b Jutta Czeguhn: Gordian knot . In: SZ . No. 212 , September 14, 2018.
- ↑ Anonymous: Monastery of St. Job of Počaev . Klosterverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-935217-62-0 .
- ↑ See ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Der Bote, No. 6/2006, p. 11. )
- ↑ See the imprint of the website ( memento from January 10, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
Web links
- Brief introduction
- Freundeskreis Kloster des St. Job e. V.
- Report about a young monk from the monastery ( Die Zeit )
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 42 " N , 11 ° 27 ′ 33" E