Metropolitan Tikhon on his appointment to Crimea: Going to Kolyma resorts
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of the Russian Orthodox Church. Photo: PAI
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov, whom the ROC Synod “appointed” to head the Crimean Metropolis, compared his new place of ministry to Kolyma in his farewell address at the Pskov-Caves Monastery.
“What is Crimea? What was Crimea in Ancient Greece, in Byzantium? Kolyma! It is Kolyma! For us it is Crimea, but for them it was a place where people could not live normally. Chrysostom and Clement, Pope of Rome, were exiled there. To Kolyma! So now it is my turn – to the resorts of Kolyma,” the metropolitan said.
According to him, Crimea is “beautiful, but it is not Pechory.”
Metropolitan Tikhon said that for him, the Pskov-Caves Monastery is “the place he loves most, the place to which his heart is attached,” a place “where he was happy.” “The most beautiful, the most beloved place, one that has never been exchanged for anything in my heart. There is no place more beautiful, warmer, or dearer than the Pskov-Caves Monastery,” the hierarch said.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that the ROC Synod had appointed a “new head of the Crimean Metropolis.”
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