On December 26, 2023, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, in cooperation with the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, the Lugansk Diocese held a round table on "Honoring local ascetics of piety, new martyrs and confessors of the Church of Russia in monasteries".
The event was attended by bishops, hegumens and abbesses, monastics and clergy of Berdyansk, Horlivka, Donetsk, Luhansk, Rovenky and Severodonetsk dioceses.
The following topics were offered for consideration:
"Traditions of honoring ascetics of piety and new martyrs in diocesan monasteries";
"Historical research, difficulties and prospects";
"Monastic New Martyrs and Confessors who suffered during the years of persecution in the diocese";
"Experience of popularization of the hagiography, feats of new martyrs and ascetics of piety among various audiences";
"Search for new forms of honoring the new martyrs".
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk addressed the audience with a welcoming speech.
The welcoming address of the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Metropolitan Theognost of Kashirsk, was read by the Mother Superior of the Marfo-Marian Monastery of Mercy in Moscow, Hegumeness Elisaveta (Pozdnyakova).
Presentations were made by:
Donetsk Diocese
Archbishop Varnava of Makeyevka - "The Life and Veneration of the Monk Elijah of Makeevsk";
Abbess Anna (Morozova), rector of St. Nicholas Nunnery in the village of Nikolskoye - "Veneration of St. Ignatius of Mariupol", "Piety of the Modern Age - Elder Sycharchimandrite Zosima (Sokur)";
Archpriest Vitaly Bakun, dean of the Yasinovataya district, rector of the Church of the First-Faithful Apostles Peter and Paul in the town of Yasinovataya, - "On the new martyrs of the Donetsk diocese on the example of the executed priest Alexander";
Abbess Michaela (Shevchenko), Mother Superior of the Iversky Nunnery in Donetsk. Donetsk, - "The modern history and fate of the monastery of the Iversk Icon of the Mother of God";
Lugansk Diocese
Hieromonk Nikon (Platov), a resident of St. John the Baptist Monastery in the village of Chuginka, - "Life descriptions of the ascetics of piety who completed their earthly journey in the village of Chuginka: Hieromonk Anthony (Puzikov) and the murdered Hieromonk Photii (Nikishin)";
Archimandrite John (Sukhina), hegumen of the Ascension Monastery in the village of Khoroshoye - "Elder Deacon Philip - prayer leader and intercessor of Lugansk region during his life and after his blessed death";
Archpriest Andrei Dubina, builder of the Olga Nunnery, - "Life of Archpriest Diomid Vinnik, who served in the Vvedensky church in the village. Krasnoye";
Abbess Antonia (Rybentseva), abbess of the women's monastery of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, - "Archimandrite Theophan (Obmok), an elder of Derkul";
Nun Euphrosynia (Golovchenko) (Iversk Icon of the Mother of God, nuns' monastic community) - "General information about the new martyrs confessors and ascetics of piety of Lugansk region";
Gorlovka diocese
Archpriest Kirill Shchevelev - "Repressed clergy, monastics and laity of Gorlovka diocese";
Severodonetsk Diocese
Hieromonk Alexis (Mironyuk), acting rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Bunchukivka, - "The repressed clergy, monks, monks and laymen of Gorlovka diocese"; Severodonetsk diocese. Bunchukovka, - "The Life of St. Blessed Nun Paraskeva Starobelskaya";
Rovenkiv diocese
Archimandrite Andrew (Nagibin);
Berdyansk diocese
Archimandrite Macarius (Pasechny), Vicar of the Monastery of St. Amvrosy of Optina in Tokmak - "The Cathedral of New Martyrs of the Berdyansk Diocese";
Archimandrite Demetrius (Mikheshkin), Head of the Department for Monasteries and Monasticism of the Berdyansk Diocese.
At the end of the speakers' presentations, the Secretary of the Department for Monasteries and Monasticism of the Lugansk Diocese, Archimandrite Sergius (Gromovik), announced the final resolution of the round table.
In his closing remarks, Metropolitan Panteleimon thanked the speakers for their shared experience in preserving the historical pages of the biographies of diocesan ascetics and perpetuating the glorious memory of the holy saints God's.
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