Pavel Ponomarev

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Pavel Ponomarev ( Russian Павел Пономарёв , actually Георгий Васильевич Пономарёв / Georgi Vasilyevich Ponomaryov * 19 February 1952 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ), the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Kuban , based in Krasnodar . Between 1999 and 2003 he was Bishop of Vienna and Austria . From 2003 to 2020 he was the patriarch exarch of all Belarus , metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk .

Career

After serving in the army, Pavel Ponomarjow entered the spiritual seminary in Moscow in 1973 , which he finished in 1976. He entered the Lavra of the Holy Trinity Sergius in 1977 , where he was ordained a monk on December 17, 1978, the ordination as a monk deacon (by Archbishop Vladimir ) and on May 6, the ordination as a monk priest .

In 1980 he graduated from the Spiritual Academy in Moscow with the title of candidate in theology . From 1979 he was a consultant in the Foreign Office of the Moscow Patriarchate. On September 15, 1981, he became a member of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, of which he was head from July 29, 1986 to July 19, 1988.

After he was ordained abbot in 1983 and he was raised to the rank of Archimandrite on August 15, 1986, on August 26, 1988 he was appointed Abbot of the Dormition Cave Monastery in Pskov .

His episcopal ordination took place on March 22, 1992 and he was the (titular) bishop of Sarayisk in the diocese of Moscow. He received the sacrament of consecration in the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelochowo in Moscow from Patriarch Alexius II , the Metropolitan of Krutizy and Kolomna Juwenalij , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk Vladimir , Metropolitan of Pskov Vladimir , Archbishop Sergij Fomin, Bishop Arseny Jepifanow and Bishop Arsenij Jepifanow . As Bishop of Sarayisk he was responsible for the eparchy in the USA, where he met regularly with Hilarion Kapral , the bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad .

Since December 29, 1999 he was Bishop of Vienna and Austria in the eparchy for Vienna and Austria , one year later Bishop of Vienna and Budapest . His successor in this office was Hilarion Alfejew in 2003 . On February 23, 2001 he was elected Archbishop and on May 7, 2003 he was appointed Archbishop of Ryazan and Kassimov. On October 8, 2011, Pavel Ponomarev was appointed Metropolitan of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Ryazan. Since December 25, 2013 he was the successor of Metropolitan Filaret Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk (after renaming of Minsk and Saslavsk). In August 2020, he surprisingly announced his resignation as Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk. He was then appointed Metropolitan of Kuban, based in Krasnodar.

Metropolitan Pavel is a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church .

Web links

Commons : Paul (Ponomaryov)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «Церковный МИД» и не только , ria.ru (Russian)
  2. ↑ Отдел внешних церковных связей Московского патриархата , mospat.ru (Russian)
  3. ↑ Отдел внешних церковных связей (ОВЦС) patriarchia.ru (Russian)
  4. ↑ Митрополит Рязанский и Павел Михайловский: «Я с теплотой вспоминаю свое служение в Америке" , pravoslavie.ru (Russian)
  5. ↑ Святейший Патриарх Кирилл возвел в сан митрополита Série архиереев Русской Православной Церкви , patriarchia.ru (Russian)
  6. ↑ Митрополит Филарет не в участвовал воскресной литургии с новым главой Белорусской православной церкви из-за болезни , news.tut.by January 5, 2014 (Russian)
  7. ^ New head for the Orthodox Church in Belarus , Domradio , August 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ponomarev, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponomarjow, Georgi Wassiljewitsch (secular name); Ponomarev, Pavel (English spelling); Пономарёв, Павел (Russian spelling); Пономарёв, Георгий Васильевич (secular name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk; Patriarchal Exarch of the whole of Belarus
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Karagandy , Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union