Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) compared his appointment as head of the Crimean Metropolis to being sent to Kolyma. Farewell speech of Metropolitan Tikhon to the brethren and parishioners of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery published on the monastery’s social media page.
“What is Crimea? What was Crimea in ancient Greece and Byzantium? Kolyma! This is Kolyma! “For us, this was Crimea, but for them it was a place where people did not live normally,” he said.
According to him, Chrysostom, Clement and the Pope were exiled there.
“To Kolyma! “That’s why I’m going to the Kolyma resorts,” he said.
“It’s beautiful there, but it’s not Pechory,” Tikhon emphasized. According to him, the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery will remain for him “the most beautiful, most beloved place of my heart, which I would not change for anything.”
October 11 recognizedThe Synod appointed Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) as the new head of the Crimean Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea Lazar, who previously held this position, retired. Instead of Tikhon, the Metropolitan of Pskov will be headed by Yuryev Bishop Arseny, vicar of the Novgorod diocese, who was also appointed abbot of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery. Read more about Tikhon’s appointment in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
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