“...The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a prudent person will not neglect them...” says the Holy Gospel of Mark (Sir. 39: 1-2, 4). The Lord created people whom he endowed with medical powers so that they could heal people from various diseases. A person who loves and honors God will not neglect his health, but will use in time what the Lord has given him.
The Society of Orthodox Doctors is a professional association of doctors of various specialties who profess a single Orthodox faith. The society was created in honor of St. Luke.
The Society of Orthodox Doctors is an association of doctors of various specialties who profess the Orthodox faith. The society was created in honor of St. Luke
Saint Luke - showed everyone an example of combining the ministry of an archpastor and a doctor
The name of St. Luke is now quite famous. The holy saint of God, Luke, appeared in the image of a good shepherd who heals ailments not only of the soul, but also of the body. It was he who set an example of combining the ministry of archpastor and doctor. By his feat, he showed that there is such a bearing of the cross of Christ.
The holy saint of God, Luke, appeared in the image of a good shepherd who heals ailments not only of the soul, but also of the body. It was he who set an example of combining the ministry of archpastor and doctor
Saint Luke - in the world Valentin Voino-Yasetsky was born in Kerch in April 1877. After graduating from high school, he firmly decided that he wanted to devote his life to suffering people, so he chose medicine.
Afterwards, he began to engage in medical practice and scientific research.
Saint Luke was not only a priest, but also a good doctor.
In 1920, he worked as a surgeon in Tashkent, but also actively participated in church life. He attended church fellowship meetings. One day, Bishop Innocent of Tashkent told him: “Doctor, you need to be a priest.”
This was perceived as God's call. Afterwards, Valentin took monasticism with the name Luke. On May 30, 1923, he was secretly consecrated. But, Luke continued to serve as a doctor.
Saint Luke was both a priest and a doctor. It was he who created the Society of Orthodox Doctors
The saint died on June 11, 1961, on the day of All Saints who shone in the Russian land. But the saint did not abandon his flock; many miraculous healings were accomplished through his prayers. In 1996, the holy discovery of the remains of St. Luke took place.
Saint Luke is the patron saint of all doctors, which is why the society bears his name
Saint Luke is the patron saint of all doctors, therefore both the Society of Orthodox Doctors of Russia, abbreviated OPVR, and the Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg bear his holy name.
The society itself was created in St. Petersburg, but there are many branches throughout the country, for example, Orthodox doctors in Moscow, Perm, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod and others.
Saint Luke is the patron saint of all doctors, which is why the Society of Orthodox Doctors of Russia bears his name. Very often on icons he can be seen dressed as a doctor.
There are 4 reasons why the Society of Orthodox Doctors was created:
- reduced moral and spiritual level of modern domestic medicine;
- exposure (detection, disclosure) of medical workers professing the Orthodox faith;
- a rather low level of Christian and spiritual compassion for persons who need medical care;
- a fairly widespread prevalence of magic, psychics and other occult techniques that influence the population.
[edit] Membership
Active members of the Society
- Orthodox doctors who have completed higher education, participate in statutory activities and pay membership fees. The decision on admission to full membership is made at meetings of the Board of the Society from candidates on the basis of their written application and written recommendation of the confessor after passing a one-year probationary period. Admission to full membership occurs when doctors solemnly take the oath of an Orthodox Christian doctor.
Associate members of the Society
- Orthodox doctors and persons of border medical specialties with higher and secondary medical education, participating in the statutory activities of the Society and its prayer life.
Honorary members of the Society
— Orthodox physicians who have made a significant contribution to the development of scientific and clinical medicine or have special merits to the Society.
- An honorary member is Archbishop Konstantin of Kurgan and Shadrinsk
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“Currently, 118 people are full and associate members of the Society. There are 80 people as full members of the Society, 5 people as candidates for full members, and 25 people as associate members. and candidates for associate members - 1 person. 7 more people have applied to join the Society,” reports the website of the OPV of St. Petersburg.
The society has a distinctive sign - an angel that adorns the head of the Alexandrian pillar
The society has a distinctive sign - an angel that adorns the head of the Alexandria Pillar, against the background of the Russian flag. And also the red cross - as a symbol of medical care and medical art, which is enclosed in a circle, a symbol of eternity, as if uniting everything heavenly and earthly.
The society has a sign - an angel adorns the head of the Alexandria pillar, against the background of the Russian flag, and a red cross - as a symbol of medical care and medical art, is enclosed in a circle
The Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg was created in February 1999 on the initiative of the charity department of the diocese and two fairly large sisterhoods of mercy. The first chairman of the society is the rector of the hospital parish of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, currently a doctor of medical sciences - Archpriest Sergius Filimonov.
The first chairman of the society is the rector of the hospital parish of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, Doctor of Medical Sciences - Archpriest Sergius Filimonov
The project of the Moscow Society of 1998 was taken as the basis of the society, which was slightly revised and approved at a general meeting of doctors. The goals and objectives of the Society of Orthodox Doctors were blessed by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga - Vladimir.
[edit] Goals and objectives
Purpose of the Society
— promoting the development of medical activities based on the Orthodox faith and Christian morality through the integration of doctors of various specialties in this direction.
[edit] Practical problems
The practical objectives of the Society of Orthodox Doctors are:
- coordination of the actions of brotherhoods, sisterhoods, societies, as well as individual laymen in providing medical care to the poor and socially vulnerable segments of the population;
- promoting the revival of charitable and socio-medical care in parishes and monasteries;
- promoting the revival and creation of churches in medical institutions;
- assistance in obtaining legal advice and assistance to doctors who find themselves in difficult moral and ethical situations;
- analysis and resolution of legal problems related to the implementation of the tasks set by the Company;
- organization of a system of qualified diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive care for clergy of Orthodox churches in St. Petersburg at the bases of medical institutions of the city where Orthodox doctors work;
- advisory medical assistance to the laity by members of the Society.
[edit] Scientific and educational tasks
- Understanding the problems of modern medicine and biotechnology in the light of the teachings of the Orthodox Church;
- preparation of materials for making judgments on medical issues by the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church;
- development and implementation of modern programs for training nurses and doctors in the basics of diaconal activity;
- conducting missionary activities to familiarize the general medical community with the basics of Orthodox dogma;
- optional teaching in theological schools the basics of medical knowledge useful to future shepherds.
The Chairman of the Society is Archpriest Sergius Filimonov, rector of the Church of the Sovereign Icon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, a practicing physician of the highest category.
The peculiarity of the society’s work is to provide assistance in physical and mental illnesses
In this society, doctors help people with various diseases not only as doctors, but also as clergy and priests. People who simply need purely spiritual help can come here.
Members of the society work in many medical schools and hospitals. At their workplaces they provide consultations to all those who have asked for help.
Among the members of the society there are 6 doctors, 9 candidates of science, and 24 doctors with the highest category.
42 people
have work experience in their specialty for more than 10 years, and some for more than 30 years
There is such a form of medical work as medical patronage. It is characterized by long-term medical dynamic observation, as well as supervision of clergy and some laity by the same doctors.
There is also such a form of service as consultative and diagnostic outpatient care. Those who turn to the Society for help have the right to receive inpatient treatment and first aid, both in a hospital and in a clinic.
Treatment on the basis of the Counseling Center is a form of providing medical care to somatic and psychoneurological patients who have suffered after some kind of magical defeats. In this case, the presence of a shepherd is mandatory.
The Society of Orthodox Doctors has four sections: general medical, psychological and psychiatric, narcological and associative. Each section has its own specialist who develops his own specific research and educational topic.
The topic considered afterwards is considered at meetings of the Society and then brought to the plenary session. These meetings take place every month and are publicly open. On average, up to 150 people attend such meetings. And sometimes there were up to 600 people. Also participating in the meetings are those who then submit the materials of the reports for discussion in the press, radio or television.
Content
- 1 Reasons for creating the Company
- 2 History of the creation of the Company
- 3 Goals and objectives 3.1 Practical tasks
- 3.2 Scientific and educational tasks
- 4.1 Medical patronage
The Society of Orthodox Doctors has its own official website
The Society of Orthodox Doctors has its own official website. The chairman of the society is an otolaryngologist surgeon, doctor of medical sciences - Archpriest Sergius Filimonov.
Official website of the Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg
The highest body of the Society is the meeting of its members. There are gaps between meetings, which are led by the Board. It is elected for one year and is headed by a chairman. The Board of Trustees is currently continuing to be created, and includes its own composition of people who want to help the Society in matters of financing.
Doctors are people who treat people’s illnesses, and Orthodox doctors also treat mental illnesses
Orthodox doctor is a combination of words that is completely unusual for us. Doctors are people who treat people's illnesses. But what is the connection? Does it really exist? Yes, the connection really exists, and even more than that, its absence makes our medicine one-sided and incomplete.
A person considers himself to have two worlds - the spiritual and the material. If you separate them, then a person will cease to be a person. In earthly life, a person needs a body, and the body needs a soul.
The Church distinguishes three levels of organization of the human structure: physical, spiritual and mental.
It is in accordance with this that diseases are divided into spiritual and mental. Medicine, at its core, relieves bodily suffering. And psychiatry deals with mental illness, but most psychiatrists don’t even know about the existence of the soul.
But sometimes people often get sick with spiritual illnesses. Such diseases include sins, passions, and vices that separate a person from God further and further. Diseases are treated only under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church.
When a person’s healthy spirit is even slightly damaged, the soul becomes obsessed with unclean passions, after which the body begins to be subject to various diseases. It is this understanding that distinguishes an ordinary doctor from an Orthodox doctor.
Real medicine has a fairly wide range of medical services, which on many points contradicts Orthodox morality. For example, what suits some people does not suit others.
[edit] Board
Chairman of the Society:
Archpriest Sergiy Filimonov, otorhinolaryngologist surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg State Medical University named after. acad. I. P. Pavlova.
Deputy Chairman for Spiritual, Religious and Publishing Issues:
Archpriest Valery Shvetsov, psychologist.
Deputy Chairman for Scientific and Educational Work:
T. V. Vinogradova, therapist, doctor of medical sciences, associate professor of the department of propaedeutics of St. Petersburg State Medical University named after academician I. P. Pavlov.
Deputy Chairman for Medical and Practical Work:
V. Ya. Plotkin, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Medical Faculty of St. Petersburg State University; N. F. Zharkov, pediatric emergency physician (TMO No. 6).
Chief Physician of the Counseling Center:
A. V. Zakrevskaya, Candidate of Medical Sciences.
Publishing department:
S. V. Lobodina.
Secretary and technical secretary:
S. V. Lobodina.
The Society of Orthodox Doctors has its branches in many cities of Russia
As mentioned earlier, the Society of Orthodox Doctors has its branches in many cities of Russia. In Moscow, the Society of Orthodox Doctors is located at the address: B. Pirogovskaya Street, 6. The chairman is Alexander Viktorovich Nedostup.
In Novosibirsk there is a medical center of the Society of Orthodox Doctors in honor of the “Healer” icon of the Mother of God. In Cheboksary the company is located at: st. Kalinina, 1. The chairman is priest Mikhail Pavlov.
Most recently, the second All-Russian Congress of the Society of Orthodox Doctors was held in Voronezh. The head of the Moscow Society, Professor Alexander Viktorovich Nedostup, talks about the current society of Orthodox doctors - there are 43 regional branches, in which there are about two thousand doctors with various medical specialties and skill levels.
He also noted the fact that such a small number in society is explained by the fact that doctors are men. And in medicine, it is mostly women who work.
Archpriest Sergius Filimonov: “The Society of Orthodox Doctors is 43 regional branches, in which there are about two thousand doctors with various medical specialties and skill levels”
At this congress they discussed the report “The Church and Modern Medical and Social Reality” by Metropolitan Sergius. There was also a report on the threat of alcohol, which is quite popular these days. Such a dominant topic as human diseases of the 21st century was also discussed.
During interviews, he was often asked whether the demand among patients for believers, that is, Orthodox doctors, was growing. He answered that most believers still prefer to be treated by Orthodox doctors. Non-Orthodox people don’t really care.
Sometimes people come, but do not understand at all how an ordinary doctor differs from an Orthodox one.
Many people believe that Orthodox medicine treats with some kind of herbs and massage.
But not all people understand that essentially the methods of treating diseases are the same as usual.
The doctor usually explains to everyone that the equipment of an Orthodox doctor is his eyes and hands, only they can see mental illnesses.
