Job (Tyvonyuk) of Chelyabinsk

From OrthodoxWiki
Revision as of 23:46, December 5, 2020 by EGobi (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

His Eminence the Metropolitan Job of Chelyabinsk (1938–2020) was the ruling hierarch of the Eparchy of Chelyabinsk in the Urals for the Church of Russia from 1996 to 2011.

Life

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. 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 Academy, from which he graduated in 1965 and entered the 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 Saint Job of Pochaev as his patron saint. On July 18 of the same year he was ordained deacon by the future Patriarch Pimen (1971–1990), when the former was Metropolitan of Krutitsk and Kolomna (1963–1971).

In 1969, Hierodeacon Job graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy with a PhD in Theology. On June 1 of the same year he was ordained into holy priesthood by Metropolitan Pimen and appointed rector of the Resurrection Church in Chita, Zabaykalsky (near northeastern Mongolia). In the following year, Job went again to the Moscow Theological Academy as a postgraduate candidate in Theology, being post-graduated in 1973.

When Metropolitan Pimen was consecrated Patriarch in 1971, he appointed Job as assistant and then head of the chancellery of the Department for External Church Relations. In 1974, when Hieromonk Job was thirty-five years old, he was elevated to the rank of hegumen, and on December 26 of the same year, archimandrite.

On January 3, 1975, Archmandrite Job was consecrated Bishop of Zaraysk in Moscow by Patriarch Pimen at the Epiphany Patriarchal Cathedral. Present in consecration were metropolitans Philaret (Denisenko) of Kiev (1968–1992) and Juvenaly (Poyarkov) of Tula (1971–1977), archbishops Pitirim (Nechayev) of Volokolamsk (1963–2003) and Vladimir (Sabodan) of Dmitrovsk (1973–1982), and bishops Serapion (Faleev) of Podolsk (1972–1975) and Chrysostom (Martishkin) of Kirsk (1974–1984).

Bishop Job served as vicar to the Eparchy of Moscow, entrusted with the administration of the Patriarchal parishes in North America, mainly in Canada, for one year.[note 1] On July 19, 1976, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Department for External Church Relations. From June 5 to June 9, 1979, Job headed the pilgrimage group of the Russian Church on a trip to the Holy Land. On December 23 of the following year he was included in the comission of the Holy Synod forthe preparation of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. On March 23, 1981, Job he was appointed head of the delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate when visiting Belgrade in Serbia.

On April 12, 1982, Vladyka Job was elevated to the rank of Archbishop of Zaraysk by Patriarch Pimen. On November 30, 1988, after the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was appointed Archbishop of Kostroma in Russia. On September 13, 1989, Archbishop Job was transferred to the Eparchy of Zhytomyr in Ukraine.

Notes

  1. The ROCOR would only recognize the Moscow Patriarchate in 2006. Until then, the two acted as different ecclesiastical bodies in North America. Bishop Job managed the churches belonging to the Patriarchate.