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In the world Dmitriy Yakovlevich Tyvonyuk, His Eminence was born on [[November 6]], 1938 in Pochaev, Kremenets, present-day Ukraine, into a peasant family. After completing his school education, Dmitriy went to the [[Pochaev Lavra of the Dormition of the Theotokos]] to serve as a novice. He was also sent to the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Balta, Odessa (southwestern Ukraine) for one year.
In 1957, when he was nineteen years old, Dmitriy joined the [[Kiev Theological Academy]]Seminary. His studies were interrupted in the following year, when the Soviet Armed Forces summoned him to serve. After demobilization, he continued his studies at the Odessa Theological AcademySeminary, from which he graduated in 1965 and entered the [[Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary|Moscow Theological Academy]].
In 1967, he entered the [[Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra]] in Moscow. On [[June 20]], 1968, when he was twenty-nine years old, Dmitriy was tonsured into holy [[monasticism]] under the name Job, having [[Job of Pochaev|Saint Job of Pochaev]] as his [[patron saint]]. On [[July 18]] of the same year he was ordained [[deacon]] by the future [[Pimen (Izvekov) of Moscow|Patriarch Pimen]] (1971–1990), when the former was Metropolitan of Krutitsk and Kolomna (1963–1971).
Metropolitan Job reposed in the Lord on [[December 1]], 2020, at the age of eighty-three, from complications caused by the Great Pandemic of 2020.
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File:Pochaev-Dormition Cathedral.jpg|Pochaev Dormition Lavra
File:06-Pecherska-Kiev-Theological-Academy.jpg|Kiev Theological Seminary
File:Odessa Theological Seminary.jpg|Odessa Theological Seminary
File:Moscow Theological Academy.jpg|Moscow Theological Academy
File:Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.jpg|Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
File:Church of the Resurrection (Chita, Zabaykalsky).jpg|Church of the Ressurrection in Chita
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