THE AKATHIST OF THANKSGIVING "GLORY TO GOD FOR EVERYTHING." READS ARCHIMANDRITE ELI (NOZDRIN)
Source: TV channel " SPAS»
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Schiarchimandrite Eli (born Alexey Afanasievich Nozdrin; March 8, 1932, village of Stanovoy Kolodez, Oryol district, Central Chernozem region) - a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Confessor of the brethren Optina desert, personal Confessor of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
He was born on March 8, 1932 in the village of Stanovoy Kolodez of Oryol district (now-Oryol region) in a peasant family. At baptism in the Church of the neighboring village of Lukin was named in honor of Alexy, the man of God. By his own admission, he began to pray at the age of three.
In 1949 he graduated from high school in his native village. He served in the army, where the Sergeant persuaded him to join the Komsomol. On his return home, he deeply repented of this, seeing it as a sin against God, and immediately burned his Komsomol ticket.
From 1955 to 1958 he studied at the engineering College in Serpukhov, and after graduation was assigned to work in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd region. He attended the only functioning Church in the city in honor of St. Nicholas, where his first Confessor was the priest John Bukotkin, who recommended the young man to enter the Saratov theological Seminary. After the closure of the Saratov Seminary, he was transferred to the Leningrad theological Seminary, and later graduated from the Leningrad theological Academy.
At the Theological Academy, he met the future Patriarch Kirill: "I entered the Seminary, and he graduated from the Academy that year. And we all loved him. He was still a layman, just Alyosha Nozdrin, but he had an amazing character and a wonderful style of relations with people.
March 13, 1966 Metropolitan Nicodemus tonsured a monk with the name Ilian in honor of one of the forty martyrs of Sebaste. Later Metropolitan Nicodemus was consecutively ordained a Hierodeacon and a hieromonk. He served in various churches of the Leningrad diocese.
From 1966 to 1976, he spent in the Pskov-Pechersk monastery, and under the influence of reading a book about Siluan of Athos, he decided to enter the Panteleimon monastery on mount Athos.
On March 3, 1976, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was sent to carry out monastic obedience on mount Athos. Lived in the Old Him, performed the duties of Confessor monastery of St. Panteleimon.
In 1989 he was called to Russia and sent as a Confessor to the restored Optina of deserts. The Abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Eulogius (Smirnov), was tonsured in the great schema with the name Eli (in honor of one of the martyrs of Sebaste).
After the local Council of 2009, he was elected Confessor of his fellow student at the Leningrad theological Academy-the newly elected Patriarch Kirill.
On April 4, 2010, at Easter in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill was elevated to the rank of schiarchimandrite.
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19 окт 2019
