Zosimus Davydov

Zosimus ( Russian Зосима ; bourgeois Russian Игорь Васильевич Давыдов , Igor Vasilyevich Davydov * 12. September 1963 in Krasnoyarsk ; † 9. May 2010 in Yakutsk ) was a Russian Orthodox Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk .

Life

Zosimus with Putin in Yakutsk

Bishop Zosimus was born in Krasnoyarsk. In 1968 the family moved to Moscow , where he graduated from high school in 1980. He enrolled at the Moscow Art School, at the same time he was active as a preacher and sexton in the Church of the Martyrs and in the Menshikov Tower in Moscow. From 1985 to 1987 he served in the Soviet army and was involved as a reservist in the renovation of Moscow's Danilov Monastery , the official residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church .

In 1988 he entered the Moscow seminary . In 1990 he joined the religious order of the Brotherhood of the Trinity and Saint Sergius and was accepted on December 16, 1991 by Archimandrite Theognost. He received the typical tonsure and the religious name Zosimus . By Alexius II. , Patriarch of Moscow and the whole of Russia and thus head of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was ordained a deacon in April 1992, and on December 13, 1992 he was ordained a priest.

From August 1998 to October 2000 Zosimus was active in the missionary pastoral care in Jerusalem, where he was involved in the 2000th anniversary celebration. After working in the Danilow Monastery, he worked in the Sacristan Monastery from 2001. On September 12, 2003, Zosimus was appointed abbot .

With the resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on August 17, 2004, he became Superior Bishop of Yakutsk and Lena. On August 26, 2004, Patriarch Alexius II was appointed Archimandrite and on September 27, 2004 he was ordained bishop in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior .

Bishop Zosimus died of a heart attack.

Web links

• Скончался епископ Якутский и Ленский Зосима (Russian)