Three reasons why patriarchal metochions are proliferating in Russia. The status of the cathedral has increased. Excerpt characterizing the Compound

Hieromonk Sergius (Filippov)

– How did the idea of ​​holding such a festival come about?

– The fact is that the temple of our farmstead was located on the territory of the ancient village of Ashcherino, which, unfortunately, has not survived. Before the tragic events of the early twentieth century, this village was widely known for its traditional annual fair. The idea of ​​its revival in the format of a festival arose almost immediately after my appointment as rector of the metochion.

Many people know nothing at all about why the monastery courtyard exists and what its inhabitants do. We will try to tell the festival participants about this as fully as possible. The second, no less important task is to revive the cultural and craft traditions that existed in our area, to support those who work on the land and earn a living with their own labor. That’s why the festival itself is held in the fall, when the main agricultural work is already coming to an end. Let our festival become a kind of fair of achievements, only this is not a competition, but rather an opportunity to communicate, learn something new, take note of something. After all, everyone is curious to know how things are with their neighbor.

– Tell us a little about what the monastery courtyard is like today?

– Each farmstead has its own task. Monastery metochions are not always created in rural areas; sometimes they are opened in the city in order to raise funds for the revival and maintenance of the monastery. Often rural farmsteads pursue the goal of providing the monastery with agricultural products. For our monastery, the monastery in Sumarokovo is also significant because on its territory there is a place where the brethren of the monastery will find their last earthly refuge. Well, while the inhabitants are alive, they can come to the farmstead and relax a little from the bustle of the city.

– What, in your opinion, is a village today? Is it possible to survive on earth?

– Of course, you can survive, and even more so save your soul. However, the work of a peasant is very hard, and not everyone wants to work on the land. I recently returned from a trip to the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions. We visited not the most remote places; the villages where we visited can be easily reached. But I just got a depressing impression - the northern village is dying out: there is no work, young people are leaving, pensioners, locals and those who came from the cities will not save the situation! Christian enlightenment after the times of atheism , practically absent. In one village, a local resident, accepting a New Testament and educational literature from me as a gift, asked: “Why do I need it?” And to my wish “God help me,” he answered: “How will He help? We have to work hard ourselves!” And this is not surprising if the locals see the priest here once a year on the patronal feast day.

– And yet, what is the main problem of life in the countryside? After all, we all understand perfectly well that a city cannot do without a village...

– The village is dying out, there is no work, and therefore no need to live in the village. Fewer and fewer people are now employed in agricultural production, so people are flocking to cities in search of a better life. But it just turns out that this is running in a vicious circle, because a person does not find happiness from the bustle of the city and is waiting for the opportunity to go on vacation to the countryside and relax there, in silence. Of course, the village needs support! It is necessary to instill in people a love for the place where they were born. In part, I would like our Podvorye festival to help with this. But without state programs for regional development, the village cannot be saved!

– What do you like to do? What is your favorite backyard activity?

– There are not enough workers at the farmstead. We have to do a lot ourselves: in church, in the garden, and around the house... I love and look forward to the time when I can pray in church or in private. As for everyday work, I like to cook for the brethren and workers, because it is often a creative process. I also like to retire to the forest and pick mushrooms or berries in silence.

– Tell us more about the festival program.

– Within the framework of the festival there will be many interesting events: this is the fair itself, where you can buy monastery and farm products, master classes of artisans and craftsmen, performances by artists and creative groups, competitions, games, folk festivals, shared meals and tea drinking...
It is symbolic that September 12 is the day of remembrance of the holy noble prince Alexander Nevsky. The Cossacks of the village of Ruzskaya will perform their program. According to pious tradition, the festival will open with a prayer service.

Time: September 12, 12.00–16.00.
Address: Moscow region, Ruza district, village. Sumarokovo.
You can get to the courtyard from the Tushinskaya metro station by a regular bus that goes to Ruza, then by bus No. 24 to the village. Sumarokovo. Or from Belorussky railway station by train to Tuchkovo station, then by bus to Ruza, from Ruza by bus number 24.

Interviewed by Yulia Stikhareva

In recent years, the number of patriarchal metochions and stauropegic parishes has increased many times over - but what is the economic and administrative meaning of this, not to mention the spiritual? In Moscow alone there are about a dozen “patriarchal residences”, some are located in not the most prestigious places such as residential suburbs and cemeteries, and some are so close to each other that you can walk there in 10 minutes.

Stauropegic temples proliferated for three main reasons. The first reason is money.

Stauropegy means submission directly to the patriarch. In an ordinary church, the abbot controls all income. If the temple does not require repairs, is located in a large city and the bishop does not tyrannize, such a rector may have apartments, dachas, expensive foreign cars and vacations abroad. It is difficult to control the rector; the bishop does not know exactly how much money is in the parish, so conflict situations often arise.

If the temple is in a village and/or ruins, is not recognized as an architectural monument and has no prospects in terms of government support and tourism, its abbot will be a beggar. Poor churches are not stauropegic. There is no income equalization system in the Russian Orthodox Church; instead there is bishop's arbitrariness.

One way or another, the money collected from parishioners and sponsors first ends up with the rector, then with the bishop. In the case of stauropegia, money from the rector goes directly to the Patriarchate treasury at the disposal of the patriarch. The patriarch is not accountable to anyone for this money and spends it at his own discretion, for example, on vacation in his beloved Alps. In Moscow, where the ruling bishop is Kirill himself, two other reasons come to the fore, which will be discussed below.

Recently, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) complained (http://tass.ru/obschestvo/5355311) that the income of parishes has recently fallen along with the income of the population, therefore, in order to maintain the quality of life of Patriarch Kirill at the same level, it is necessary to increase the number of stauropegic churches.

The second reason why the number of stauropegial churches is growing, especially in Moscow, is purely administrative.

In the natural course of events, the community builds a temple for itself according to its capabilities, and if there is no community, then there is no temple. In Moscow, everything happens the other way around: first, a prefabricated church is built in a new location according to “Program 200,” and only then people begin to go to it. There may not be a community in its classical sense for years and decades; there is only a building, a priest and parishioners without rights and responsibilities. The difference is about the same as between a fast food outlet and a culinary club.

Violation of Chapter 17 of the Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church, which provides for a collective form of parish management, a parish assembly and a parish council, does not bother anyone. Falsifying the minutes of the parish council is a basic skill of any rector, and the councils themselves in the vast majority of churches exist only on paper. When you hear about the struggle of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Soviet regime, this is it (joke).

With the patriarchal metochions, things are even simpler; even according to the charter, there are no parish councils and there is no need for an asset. For the modern clergy this is a very convenient scheme, because the income is the same, but there is much less hassle - you have served the service, taken the money from the candle box and are free.

The third reason is purely psychological. The previously unimaginable number of patriarchal farmsteads is the embodiment of the managerial dream of Patriarch Kirill, who wants to rule everyone without exception personally.

Thanks to Kirill, the fashion of subjugating the most profitable church objects also extends to diocesan bishops. In recent years, it is bishops who have become rectors of significant monasteries and churches in their diocese, taking control of all the main financial flows.

Summary: stauropegy is His Holiness’s feeder and a convenient way to quickly open a temple without any problems. Patriarch Kirill “needs more gold” all the time (https://youtu.be/P-vlit3Pz-Q), so their number is growing.

Compound

Compound

1. A house in a city with outbuildings, owned by a person permanently residing elsewhere, and used for temporary stops and storage of goods. The courtyard of a Moscow merchant in Irbit.

2. Inn.

3. A city church with a dormitory for monks, belonging to a country monastery.

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- A cathedral is considered a bishop's courtyard if it serves as a residence for the bishop and is directly subordinate to him. The capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic is the second titular city of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese, and the Bishop has repeatedly emphasized how significant our city is for him. There is a temple with this status in Pyatigorsk, and there should be one in Cherkessk. And therefore, the St. Nicholas Cathedral was given the high status of a bishop's courtyard; Bishop Theophylact of Pyatigorsk and Circassia himself became its rector.
- Has anything changed in the temple due to the change in status?
-The high status of the cathedral as the residence of the bishop means that the temple has become the main temple of the republic, which implies the revival of spiritual life in the parish. For this purpose, the bishop redistributed responsibilities among the priests of the cathedral. Archpriest Valentin Korneev was appointed keymaster, that is, deputy rector of the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Bishop Theophylact of Pyatigorsk and Circassia. Thanks to this, Father Valentin will be able to fully concentrate on organizing liturgical, educational, missionary, and outreach activities, without being distracted by the everyday needs of the church. They will be handled by the newly appointed treasurer of the cathedral, Priest Sergius Kuznetsov. He, Father Sergius, was also appointed director of the St. Sergius Orthodox Gymnasium.
- I would like you to tell us more about the new priest.
- Father Sergiy Kuznetsov is a native of Murmansk, but since 1986 his family moved to Nalchik. From 1988 to 1992 he studied at the Nalchik Music School, where he qualified as a choral conductor, music teacher and solfeggio teacher. Later he studied with Valery Kaytsukov at the North Caucasus Institute of Arts, in the department of Academic Singing. On February 15, 1994, he was ordained a deacon. In 1997 he was appointed full-time deacon of the Archangel Michael Cathedral in Pyatigorsk, and since 1999 - full-time deacon of St. Nicholas Cathedral in the city of Kislovodsk. In 1998 - 2002, Father Sergius was educated at the Stavropol Theological Seminary. In 2002, he was transferred as a full-time deacon to the Cathedral of St. Simeon the Stylite in Nalchik. In 2004, he was ordained to the priesthood and appointed full-time priest of the cathedral, St. Simeon the Stylite. Father has four children.
- At the beginning of September, the grand opening of the new building of the St. Sergius Orthodox Gymnasium took place in Cherkessk, where the Head of Karachay-Cherkessia Rashid Temrezov and the mayor of Cherkessk Ruslan Tambiev presented the Bishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk Theophylact with a symbolic key to the new building. Are you satisfied with the new premises?
- Yes, definitely. Previously, the Orthodox Lyceum was located in the building of a former nursery on Leonova Street, 10. This building was not very suitable for an educational institution, and therefore it was decided to move the Lyceum to a spacious room suitable for the educational process next to the Church of the Intercession. The St. Sergius Orthodox Gymnasium is now located in the old building of secondary school No. 11 on Kochubeya Street, 28. The gymnasium is designed for 100 children. We are sincerely grateful to the Head of the Republic Rashid Temrezov and the mayor of the city Ruslan Tambiev, who invariably respond to our needs with great understanding.
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- An Orthodox gymnasium is a primary secondary school in which the educational process is divided into two parts. In the first half of the day, schoolchildren are taught in accordance with federal educational standards in all subjects provided for in the primary school curriculum. In the afternoon, with the consent of the parents, students of the gymnasium are offered a number of subjects of an ethnocultural orientation - church singing, Church Slavonic language and the fundamentals of Orthodox culture. At this stage, the clergy of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese are involved in the educational process. And very soon, on the basis of secondary school No. 11, an educational and methodological center will appear, which will specifically deal with issues of spiritual and moral education of children and adolescents.
- You spoke about the revival of spiritual life, but when will believers see the bishop in their courtyard again?
- Literally in a few days, on Intercession, October 14, the Bishop will be in the republic. In the village of Kavkazsky, where we were recently allocated a plot of land, he will lay the foundation stone for a new temple. And this will be another step in revitalizing spiritual life in the republic.

Ushakov's Dictionary

Compound

courtyard, courtyard, genus. pl. farmsteads, Wed (outdated).

1. A house in a city with outbuildings, owned by a person permanently residing elsewhere, and used for temporary stops and storage of goods. The courtyard of a Moscow merchant in Irbit.

2. Inn.

3. A city church with a dormitory for monks, belonging to a country monastery.

Architectural Dictionary

Compound

1. An urban complex with hotel, trade or business functions, owned by an owner (monastery, merchant) from another locality.

2. Inn.

(Terms of Russian architectural heritage. Pluzhnikov V.I., 1995)

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Compound

an area, usually in a large city (often a capital), owned and outside the monastery. The monastery itself can be in a rural area, abroad, etc. In fact, a metochion is a small independent monastery, located, as a rule, next to a temple. The metochion has its own staff of clergy. Monks from the main monastery are sent here to live as novitiates, sometimes for several years. The metochion plays the role of the “official representation” of the monastery to which it is assigned.

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Compound

, I , Wed

A house with associated buildings, an estate; house for visitors; inn; private hotel.

* She entered the gate - There is silence in the courtyard. // Pushkin. The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights //; Pop says to Balda: - "...Live in my yard, show your zeal and agility". // Pushkin. The Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda // *

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SUPPORT ABOUT RIE, I, genus. pl. riy, Wed

1. Same as inn(obsolete). Stop at p.

2. Hotel, preferably for clergy (with a church, chapel) belonging to a bishop or monastery. Bishop's village

3. Yard and vegetable garden, farming at a rural house. Peasant village

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Compound

1. Wed
   1. :
      1. Smb. house with related buildings; estate
      2. local Smb.'s yard farm, at the estate.
   2. :
      1. outdated A house with outbuildings, owned by a person living in another city, or rented by him for temporary visits, storage of goods, etc.
      2. A house in a city belonging to a bishop or monastery (usually with a church or chapel) for visiting clergy or monastics.
   3. outdated Inn; private hotel.