Rodzianko Vasily Biography

Vladyka Vasily devoted his whole life to the Lord her external expressions are not so violent, desperate and hopeless, as in an extra -church environment, and the grief itself is bright and fulfilled by hope. The constant prayer memory brings the image of the deceased closer to us, enriches our understanding of the high meaning of his life path, allows the external events to feel the features of the Providence of God Vladyka Vasily on the day of his ordination of Woral Washington, Vladyka Vasily Vladimir Mikhailovich Rodzianko was born in Little Russia, in the Fatherland of Otrada, where his father Mikhail Mikhailovich, where his father Mikhailovich, where his father is Mikhailovich.

A graduate of Moscow University, diligently engaged in farming. In the city, it is remarkable that during the times of woeful disorders and disagreements in the church that began in the years and ongoing and still, the future bishop had the role of a peacekeeper: he, as a messenger, took part in the correspondence of Metropolitan Anthony with Metropolitan Evliy, as a result of which the liturgical communication of the two branches of the Russian Church in exile was renewed.

And in the future, the lord, among his spiritual teachers, in addition to the two named outstanding hierarchs, mentioned the Monk Istin Popovich and Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozhsky. Rodzianko entered the theological faculty of the University of Belgrade, which he graduated in the same year, he began to work on a dissertation in Oxford, where he stayed the next year.

Vladimir served on April 6, on the eve of the Annunciation under the bombs in the city during the war about. Vladimir was the rector of the rural parish and the secretary of the Red Cross. Many people owe him a salvation from the horrors of war. Now, observing the ongoing war in the Balkans, we can properly evaluate the strength of the spirit that was required for this.

Vladimir was arrested by the Titian authorities and spent two years in the camp. From G. Vladimir served as a priest of the Serbian church in London, and in G. many years later, in the Russian wilderness, when the Vladyka went to serve in a remote temple from requests to come to the service, he never refused, no matter how difficult a trip to him was, he found a man who mourned over the old man’s body: his son was taking his father in a carriage of a motorcycle.

Vladyka suggested that the dead man if he was Orthodox. The son said that there was no temple in their area, but his father had a confessor, and explained how it became possible: "He listened to the BBC radio, and there was priest Vladimir Rodzianko, and he said that this was his spiritual father." This case suggests what was made by the Lord for the Russian Church in the deaf years, probably no less eloquent than hundreds and thousands of other evidence, although they are all as valuable.

Jereanian ministry about. Vladimir was marked by the episode, perhaps ordinary in the life of a priest, but having a certain historical meaning: the priest accepted the dying confession of A. Kerensky, and thereby the Lord, as it were, entrusted him with the visible completion of a certain stage of Russian history. Vladimir suffered a test: Mother Maria and grandson Igor died.

They knew the lord at that time said that his grief was performed by spiritual courage, that he constantly turned to the Lord with that amazing combination of boldness and humility, which so amazes those who think about the pages of the book of Job. In the same year, Vladyka became a bishop of San Francisa and California. Already being in the bishop’s dignity, he in the city in the St.

Nicholas Church in Washington, he is paying about the needs of the arrival and individual believers, but the center of his attention is transferred to Russia, where the Vladyka was repeatedly and was delayed for a long time. As a result, he wrote the book “The theory of the collapse of the universe and the faith of the fathers” was published in G. in this book primarily attracted by the combination of such properties of the author, which are not so often combined in our world: erudition and youthful interest in knowledge, bishop's weight of words and deep humility.

The wonderful life path of the minister of the Orthodox Church, the shepherd and confessor, the mentor and the scientist. The archive left by Vladyka Vasily needs to study; Obviously, he is fraught with many valuable materials waiting for his publication, after which we can better know his life. The poor health of the lord, his venerable age still increased this similarity. Moreover, he did not despise human needs at all, although he was content with small; He thanked with joy and love for the shelter, and for care, and just for his attention.

Behind these touching in his details and sincerity, thanks arises the excellent appearance of the old man who welcomes all good attitude to himself as a precious gift of God; It becomes clear how love emanating from the Lord, which in itself is already the highest gift, makes people capable of bringing gifts, and through this simple human action people give themselves to each other and the Lord, and the benefit of the Creator is multiplied in the world.

The prayer memory of Bishop Vasily will never run out of those to whom the Lord gave the joy of seeing and hearing him.It is hoped that thanks to films and books with his spiritual feat, those who did not know him in earthly life will be able to get acquainted, and that this meeting will give them comfort and strengthening in faith and lead to the multiplication of love.