Former ataman, and now Bishop of Barnaul and Altai Sergius celebrates his birthday

Sergius (Ivannikov)
(born 1957), Metropolitan of Barnaul and Altai, head of the Altai Metropolis, temporary administrator of the Biysk and Belokurikha diocese, rector of the Barnaul Theological Seminary In the world Ivannikov Sergei Ivanovich, born on August 29, 1957 in the village of Troitsky, Nikolsky district, Oryol region, into a family peasants Ivan Grigorievich and Nina Egorovna Ivannikov. He learned the fundamentals of the Orthodox faith and Russian piety from his parents from early childhood. His grandparents also had a great influence - with them he visited the local temple and absorbed their stories about his former life, Orthodox customs and piety.

In 1964 he entered junior high school in his native village, which he graduated in 1972 and continued his studies at secondary school No. 2 in the city of Liven, which he successfully completed in 1974. Anti-religious propaganda did not shake his faith, and already in the last grades of school he had a desire to serve the Church in the priesthood.

In 1975-1977 he served in the Soviet Army. For some time after military service, he worked as a driver in an automobile company, and then worked in a church in his homeland as a watchman and janitor, and helped at the altar.

In 1979 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, and in 1982 he was enrolled as a student at the Moscow Theological Academy.

On November 21, 1985, he was ordained a deacon, and on February 23, 1986, a priest. Both ordinations in the Academic Church of the Intercession were performed by the rector of the academy, Bishop Dmitrovsky Alexander (Timofeev)

The course of academic study was completed by writing and defending a scientific work for the degree of candidate of theology in the Department of Homiletics on the topic “ Homiletical meaning

Lives of the Saints" [1].

After graduating from the academy in the summer of 1986, he was sent for pastoral service to the Estonian diocese. From February 1, 1987 to May 1992, he served in the Pyukhtitsa Monastery. He led a children's Sunday school and taught the basics of morality to children.

According to the patriarchal resolution of March 21, 1992, Bishop Cornilius of Tallinn was appointed rector of the Resurrection Cathedral in Narva from April 15 of that year with the right to head cathedral services. The main task of his rectorship during that transitional and critical time was to pacify parish life, organize regular statutory services, build the facilities necessary for the parish and major repairs of the church. At the same time, I had to perform the duties of a rector in the parishes of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the village of Alaiõe and Elijah the Prophet in the village of Vasknarva, where the rector’s efforts carried out major renovations of buildings and landscaped the church grounds.

On April 30, 1995, he was elevated to the rank of archpriest.
In the summer of 1998, construction began on a new Narva church in honor of the Narva Icon of the Mother of God with the chapel of Righteous John of Kronstadt, which was consecrated on November 10, 2001.

He took part in significant cultural, spiritual and social events of city life, and gained the love and respect of the city residents.

On June 1, 2000, he was appointed rector of the Tallinn Alexander Nevsky Cathedral with dismissal from all previously held positions.

At the Council of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, held in the Tallinn Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on July 27, 2000, he was elected a member of the Synod of the Estonian Church.

By Decree of the Estonian Government No. 469-k he received Estonian citizenship “for special merits”, i.e. "for his contribution to spiritual work and the preservation of church property."

On June 1, 2003, he was transferred to the position of rector of the Tallinn Church of Sorrow on Sitsi Street.

On November 1 of the same year he was transferred to Moscow and enrolled as an employee of the Department for External Church Relations.

On January 5, 2004, in the Smolensk Assumption Cathedral, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk was tonsured a monk with the name Sergius and received the rank of hieromonk.

On March 25 of the same year he was appointed a member of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem. He took an active part in the restoration of the Church of All Saints who shone forth in the Russian Land in the Gornensky convent.

On Easter 2004, he was elevated to the rank of abbot at the Trinity Cathedral of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem by Archbishop Vincent of Yekaterinburg.

On April 11, 2006, he was transferred to the position of rector of the Church of St. George the Victorious at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Prague, Czech Republic.

On October 12, 2007, in response to the request of Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church blessed the transition of Father Sergius to the clergy of the Prague Diocese of the Czechoslovak Orthodox Church. On December 27 of the same year he was released from his rectorship in the Prague St. George Embassy Church [2]. Upon his transfer to the Czechoslovak clergy, he was appointed rector of the Prague Assumption Church at the Olshansky cemetery.

On January 8, 2008, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite by Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia [3].

Subsequently, it again entered the canonical jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On March 16, 2012, being a cleric of the city of Moscow, he was elected Bishop of Kamensky and Alapaevsky [4]. The next day followed his episcopal consecration as Bishop of Kamensky and Alapaevsky in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The ordination was performed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', Metropolitan Barsanuphius of Saransk; Ekaterinburg Kirill; Samara Sergius and Nizhny Novgorod Georgy, bishops of Vidnovsky Tikhon and Solnechnogorsk Sergius [5].

On May 29, 2013 he was appointed Bishop of Barnaul and Altai [6]. On July 16 of the same year he was appointed to the position of rector of the Barnaul Theological Seminary [7].

On May 5, 2015, he was appointed head of the newly formed Altai Metropolis [8].

On May 24, 2015, he was elevated to the rank of metropolitan by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' [9].

Since December 28, 2021 - temporary administrator of the Biysk and Belokurikha diocese [10].

Russian Orthodox Church

Born on August 29, 1957 in the village. Troitskoye, Livensky district, Oryol region, baptized in infancy.

Studied at secondary school with. Trinity and at school No. 2 in Livny. In 1975-1977 served in the Armed Forces. In 1978, he worked as a driver at a car company, then worked at the St. Sergius Church in Livny.

In 1979-1982 studied at the Moscow Theological Seminary, 1982-1986. - at the Moscow Theological Academy. Candidate of Theology in the Department of Homiletics.

On November 21, 1985, in the Intercession Church of the MDA, the rector of Moscow theological schools, Bishop Alexander (Timofeev) of Dmitrov, ordained him a deacon, and on February 23, 1986, he was ordained a priest.

In 1986, after graduating from the academy in the summer, the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church sent him to serve in the Estonian diocese. From February 1, 1987 to May 1992, he served in the Pukhtitsa Monastery.

On April 15, 1992, according to the resolution of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, Bishop Cornilius of Tallinn was appointed rector of the Resurrection Cathedral in Narva. In 1998-2001 supervised the construction of a new church in Narva in honor of the Narva Icon of the Mother of God.

On June 1, 2000, Metropolitan Cornilius of Tallinn appointed rector of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn.

On July 27, 2000, at the Council of the Estonian Orthodox Church, he was elected a member of the Synod of the EOC MP.

In 2002 he received citizenship of the Republic of Estonia. On June 19, 2003, by resolution of the Narva City Assembly, he was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Narva.”

By decree of Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn on June 1, 2003, he was relieved of his post as rector of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and appointed rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” in Tallinn.

On November 1, 2003 he was transferred to Moscow. Appointed as an employee of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On January 5, 2004, in the Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk, the chairman of the DECR, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (now the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'), was tonsured into monasticism with the name Sergius.

By determination of the Holy Synod of March 25, 2004, he was appointed a member of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem.

In 2004 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.

By the determination of the Holy Synod of April 11, 2006 (magazine No. 9), he was relieved of his duties as a member of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem and appointed rector of the church in the name of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious at the Russian Embassy in Prague (Czech Republic).

By the decision of the Holy Synod of October 12, 2007 (magazine No. 98), he was sent to the clergy of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia at the request of its Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher, where he served as rector of the Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague until February 5, 2012 .

On January 8, 2008, His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher elevated him to the rank of archimandrite.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of March 16, 2012 (magazine No. 18), he was elected Bishop of Kamensk and Alapaevsk.

He was ordained bishop on March 16 in the Church of All Saints who shone forth in the Russian Land, at the Patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. He was consecrated on March 18 during the Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The services were led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of May 29, 2013 (magazine No. 43), he was appointed Bishop of Barnaul and Altai.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of July 16, 2013 (journal No. 88), he was appointed to the position of rector of the Barnaul Theological Seminary.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of May 5, 2015 (magazine No. 5), he was appointed head of the Altai Metropolis.

On May 24, 2015, during the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill elevated him to the rank of metropolitan.

From December 2021 to February 2021, he temporarily managed the Biysk diocese.

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Awards

Liturgical awards:

• Pectoral Cross (June 12, 1986);
• Palitsa (for Easter 2000);
• Cross with decorations (August 29, 2007);
• The right to wear a second cross with decorations (August 28, 2009) from Metropolitan Christopher.

Church awards:

• Medal of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree (December 6, 1985) in connection with the 300th anniversary of the Moscow Theological Academy;
• Medal of the Venerable Prince Daniel of Moscow (November 17, 1996) for the 100th anniversary of the Narva Resurrection Cathedral;
• Medal of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st degree (November 10, 2001);
• Golden Cross of Saints Methodius and Cyril (Czech Orthodox Church, August 29, 2007) for the 50th Anniversary from Metropolitan Christopher of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia;
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, III degree (August 31, 2007) for the 50th anniversary;
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree (October 8, 2012)[17] for the 55th anniversary;
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, III degree (August 29, 2017)[18];
• Order of Saint Prince Rostislav, II degree (Czech Orthodox Church, July 12, 2021)[19];
• three Patriarchal blessed letters and one diocesan bishop.

Government and public awards and honors:

• “Honorary Citizen of the City of Narva” (June 19, 2003);
• Badge “For Distinction” of the Department of State Protection of Property of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (March 14, 2006);
• For contribution to the development of Barnaul (2017)[20].

Proceedings

Author of many works, including:

• Second missionary church in Tiflis. Tiflis, 1897.
• The pastor's thoughts on some of the sayings of the Holy Apostle Paul related to pastoral ministry. Tiflis, 1903.
• Pastor preacher according to St. John Chrysostom. Tiflis, 1903.
• How should we understand the priest’s exclamation at Matins: “Glory to Thee, who showed us the light.” Tiflis, 1903.
• Thoughts about suicide. Dedicated to young students. Tiflis, 1908.
• From the spiritual heritage of Metropolitan Bartholomew of Novosibirsk and Barnaul. Diary, messages, sermons, articles. On the 40th anniversary of his death. // Introductory article and notes by Archpriest Boris Pivovarov. - Novosibirsk, 1996.
• Reflections on creating an “inner man” within yourself.
• About pastoral service according to St. to the Apostle Paul.
• Explanation of the miracle of healing of the Gadarene demoniacs.

Links

• Sergius, Bishop of Barnaul and Altai (Ivannikov Sergei Ivanovich) on the website patriarchia.ru
• Ivannikov Sergey Ivanovich on the website “Russian Orthodoxy”
• Archimandrite Sergius (Ivannikov)
• Father Sergius Ivannikov left Estonia
• Archimandrite Sergius (Ivannikov): “When they tell me: “Oh, how bad it is to live in Russia, I will go abroad, live there and do business here, and remain Russian,” - this is all a deception, and a deliberate one at that!”
• Conversations with the priest (TK Soyuz 2012-06-17) (video)
• Bishop Sergius (Ivannikov)

Excerpt characterizing Sergius (Ivannikov)

This painful and joyful story was apparently necessary for Natasha. She spoke, mixing the most insignificant details with the most intimate secrets, and it seemed that she could never finish. She repeated the same thing several times. Behind the door, Desalles' voice was heard asking if Nikolushka could come in to say goodbye. “Yes, that’s all, that’s all...” said Natasha. She quickly stood up just as Nikolushka was entering, and almost ran to the door, hit her head on the door covered with a curtain, and with a groan of either pain or sadness burst out of the room. Pierre looked at the door through which she went out and did not understand why he was suddenly left alone in the whole world. Princess Marya called him out of his absent-mindedness, drawing his attention to his nephew, who entered the room. Nikolushka’s face, similar to his father, in the moment of spiritual softening in which Pierre was now, had such an effect on him that he, having kissed Nikolushka, hastily stood up and, taking out a handkerchief, went to the window. He wanted to say goodbye to Princess Marya, but she held him back. – No, Natasha and I sometimes don’t sleep until three o’clock; please sit. I'll give you dinner. Go down; we'll be there now. Before Pierre left, the princess told him: “This is the first time she spoke about him like that.” Pierre was led into the large, illuminated dining room; a few minutes later steps were heard, and the princess and Natasha entered the room. Natasha was calm, although a stern, without a smile, expression was now again established on her face. Princess Marya, Natasha and Pierre equally experienced that feeling of awkwardness that usually follows the end of a serious and intimate conversation. It is impossible to continue the same conversation; It’s shameful to talk about trifles, but it’s unpleasant to remain silent, because you want to talk, but with this silence you seem to be pretending. They silently approached the table. The waiters pushed back and pulled up chairs. Pierre unfolded the cold napkin and, deciding to break the silence, looked at Natasha and Princess Marya. Both, obviously, at the same time decided to do the same: contentment with life and recognition that, in addition to grief, there are also joys, shone in their eyes. - Do you drink vodka, Count? - said Princess Marya, and these words suddenly dispersed the shadows of the past. “Tell me about yourself,” said Princess Marya. “They tell such incredible miracles about you.” “Yes,” Pierre answered with his now familiar smile of gentle mockery. “They even tell me about such miracles as I have never seen in my dreams.” Marya Abramovna invited me to her place and kept telling me what had happened to me, or was about to happen. Stepan Stepanych also taught me how to tell things. In general, I noticed that it is very peaceful to be an interesting person (I am an interesting person now); they call me and they tell me. Natasha smiled and wanted to say something. “We were told,” Princess Marya interrupted her, “that you lost two million in Moscow.” Is this true? “And I became three times richer,” said Pierre. Pierre, despite the fact that his wife’s debts and the need for buildings changed his affairs, continued to say that he had become three times richer. “What I have undoubtedly won,” he said, “is freedom...” he began seriously; but decided against continuing, noticing that this was too selfish a subject of conversation. -Are you building? - Yes, Savelich orders. – Tell me, did you not know about the death of the Countess when you stayed in Moscow? - said Princess Marya and immediately blushed, noticing that by making this question after his words that he was free, she ascribed to his words a meaning that they, perhaps, did not have. “No,” answered Pierre, obviously not finding the interpretation that Princess Marya gave to his mention of her freedom awkward. “I learned this in Orel, and you can’t imagine how it struck me.” We were not exemplary spouses,” he said quickly, looking at Natasha and noticing in her face the curiosity about how he would respond to his wife. “But this death struck me terribly.” When two people quarrel, both are always to blame. And one’s own guilt suddenly becomes terribly heavy in front of a person who no longer exists. And then such death... without friends, without consolation. “I’m very, very sorry for her,” he finished and was pleased to notice the joyful approval on Natasha’s face. “Yes, here you are again, a bachelor and a groom,” said Princess Marya. Pierre suddenly blushed crimson and tried for a long time not to look at Natasha. When he decided to look at her, her face was cold, stern and even contemptuous, as it seemed to him. – But did you really see and talk with Napoleon, as we were told? - said Princess Marya. Pierre laughed. - Never, never. It always seems to everyone that being a prisoner means being a guest of Napoleon. Not only have I not seen him, but I have also not heard of him. I was in much worse company. Dinner ended, and Pierre, who at first refused to talk about his captivity, gradually became involved in this story. - But is it true that you stayed to kill Napoleon? – Natasha asked him, smiling slightly. “I guessed it when we met you at the Sukharev Tower; remember? Pierre admitted that this was the truth, and from this question, gradually guided by the questions of Princess Marya and especially Natasha, he became involved in a detailed story about his adventures. At first he spoke with that mocking, meek look that he now had at people and especially at himself; but then, when he came to the story of the horrors and suffering that he had seen, he, without noticing it, became carried away and began to speak with the restrained excitement of a person experiencing strong impressions in his memory. Princess Marya looked at Pierre and Natasha with a gentle smile. In this whole story she saw only Pierre and his kindness. Natasha, leaning on her arm, with a constantly changing expression on her face, along with the story, watched, without looking away for a minute, Pierre, apparently experiencing with him what he was telling. Not only her look, but the exclamations and short questions she made showed Pierre that from what he was telling, she understood exactly what he wanted to convey. It was clear that she understood not only what he was saying, but also what he would like and could not express in words. Pierre told about his episode with a child and a woman, for whose protection he was taken, in the following way: “It was a terrible sight, children were abandoned, some were on fire... In front of me they pulled out a child... women, from whom they pulled things off, tore out earrings... Pierre blushed and hesitated. “Then a patrol arrived, and all those who were not robbed, all the men were taken away. And me. – You probably don’t tell everything; “You must have done something…” Natasha said and paused, “good.” Pierre continued to talk further. When he talked about the execution, he wanted to avoid the terrible details; but Natasha demanded that he not miss anything. Pierre started to talk about Karataev (he had already gotten up from the table and was walking around, Natasha was watching him with her eyes) and stopped. - No, you cannot understand what I learned from this illiterate man - a fool. “No, no, speak up,” said Natasha. - Where is he? “He was killed almost in front of me.” - And Pierre began to tell the last time of their retreat, Karataev’s illness (his voice trembled incessantly) and his death. Pierre told his adventures as he had never told them to anyone before, as he had never recalled them to himself. He now saw, as it were, a new meaning in everything that he had experienced. Now, when he was telling all this to Natasha, he was experiencing that rare pleasure that women give when listening to a man - not smart women who, while listening, try to either remember what they are told in order to enrich their minds and, on occasion, retell it or adapt what is being told to your own and quickly communicate your clever speeches, developed in your small mental economy; but the pleasure that real women give, gifted with the ability to select and absorb into themselves all the best that exists in the manifestations of a man. Natasha, without knowing it herself, was all attention: she did not miss a word, a hesitation in her voice, a glance, a twitch of a facial muscle, or a gesture from Pierre. She caught the unspoken word on the fly and brought it directly into her open heart, guessing the secret meaning of all Pierre’s spiritual work. Princess Marya understood the story, sympathized with it, but now she saw something else that absorbed all her attention; she saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre. And for the first time this thought came to her, filling her soul with joy. It was three o'clock in the morning. Waiters with sad and stern faces came to change the candles, but no one noticed them. Pierre finished his story. Natasha, with sparkling, animated eyes, continued to look stubbornly and attentively at Pierre, as if wanting to understand something else that he might not have expressed. Pierre, in bashful and happy embarrassment, occasionally glanced at her and thought of what to say now in order to shift the conversation to another subject. Princess Marya was silent. It didn’t occur to anyone that it was three o’clock in the morning and that it was time to sleep. “They say: misfortune, suffering,” said Pierre. - Yes, if they told me now, this very minute: do you want to remain what you were before captivity, or go through all this first? For God's sake, once again captivity and horse meat. We think how we will be thrown out of our usual path, that everything is lost; and here something new and good is just beginning. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a lot, a lot ahead. “I’m telling you this,” he said, turning to Natasha. “Yes, yes,” she said, answering something completely different, “and I would like nothing more than to go through everything all over again.” Pierre looked at her carefully. “Yes, and nothing more,” Natasha confirmed. “It’s not true, it’s not true,” Pierre shouted. – It’s not my fault that I’m alive and want to live; and you too. Suddenly Natasha dropped her head into her hands and began to cry. - What are you doing, Natasha? - said Princess Marya. - Nothing, nothing. “She smiled through her tears at Pierre. - Goodbye, time to sleep. Pierre stood up and said goodbye. Princess Marya and Natasha, as always, met in the bedroom. They talked about what Pierre had told. Princess Marya did not speak her opinion about Pierre. Natasha didn't talk about him either. “Well, goodbye, Marie,” Natasha said. – You know, I’m often afraid that we don’t talk about him (Prince Andrei), as if we are afraid to humiliate our feelings and forget. Princess Marya sighed heavily and with this sigh acknowledged the truth of Natasha’s words; but in words she did not agree with her. - Is it possible to forget? - she said. “It felt so good to tell everything today; and hard, and painful, and good. “Very good,” said Natasha, “I’m sure he really loved him.” That's why I told him... nothing, what did I tell him? – suddenly blushing, she asked. - Pierre? Oh no! How wonderful he is,” said Princess Marya. “You know, Marie,” Natasha suddenly said with a playful smile that Princess Marya had not seen on her face for a long time. - He became somehow clean, smooth, fresh; definitely from the bathhouse, do you understand? - morally from the bathhouse. Is it true? “Yes,” said Princess Marya, “he won a lot.” - And a short frock coat, and cropped hair; definitely, well, definitely from the bathhouse... dad, it used to be... “I understand that he (Prince Andrei) did not love anyone as much as he did,” said Princess Marya. – Yes, and it’s special from him. They say that men are friends only when they are very special. It must be true. Is it true that he doesn't resemble him at all? - Yes, and wonderful. “Well, goodbye,” Natasha answered. And the same playful smile, as if forgotten, remained on her face for a long time. Pierre could not fall asleep for a long time that day; He walked back and forth around the room, now frowning, pondering something difficult, suddenly shrugging his shoulders and shuddering, now smiling happily. He thought about Prince Andrei, about Natasha, about their love, and was either jealous of her past, then reproached her, then forgave himself for it. It was already six o'clock in the morning, and he was still walking around the room. “Well, what can we do? If you can’t do without it! What to do! So, this is how it should be,” he said to himself and, hastily undressed, went to bed, happy and excited, but without doubts and indecisions. “We must, strange as it may be, no matter how impossible this happiness is, we must do everything in order to be husband and wife with her,” he said to himself. Pierre, a few days before, had set Friday as the day of his departure for St. Petersburg. When he woke up on Thursday, Savelich came to him for orders about packing his things for the road. “How about St. Petersburg? What is St. Petersburg? Who's in St. Petersburg? – he asked involuntarily, although to himself. “Yes, something like that a long time ago, long ago, even before this happened, I was planning to go to St. Petersburg for some reason,” he remembered. - From what? I'll go, maybe. How kind and attentive he is, how he remembers everything! - he thought, looking at Savelich’s old face. “And what a pleasant smile!” - he thought. - Well, don’t you want to go free, Savelich? asked Pierre. - Why do I need freedom, Your Excellency? We lived under the late count, the kingdom of heaven, and we see no resentment under you. - Well, what about the children? “And the children will live, your Excellency: you can live with such gentlemen.” - Well, what about my heirs? - said Pierre. “What if I get married... It could happen,” he added with an involuntary smile. “And I dare to report: a good deed, your Excellency.”