METROPOLITAN ORIGINALLY FROM WAD
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This article analyzes the life and activity of Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga diocese Anthony (Vadkovsky) - born with Shiringushi Spassky district of Tambov province (now the Zubovo-Polyansky District of the Republic of Mordovia), which is July 22 (August 3), 2016 marks the one hundred and seventy years since the birth. The authors highlight the little-known side of the biography of Metropolitan - a prominent reformer of the Russian Orthodox Church, the initiator and organizer of the canonization of the relics of Seraphim Sarovsky, the originator of the memorandum of desirable reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church, the Cathedral and its dispensation of restoration of the Patriarchate. All-Russian Local Council, for which has done so much, Metropolitan Anthony, which opened August 15, 1917 in Moscow and lasted more than a year to restore the institution of the patriarchate in Russia, but it is clear that without strong initiatives and activities of Metropolitan Anthony, he could not have taken place.

Elena N.M., Mokshin N.F., (2016), METROPOLITAN ORIGINALLY FROM WAD. Sociopolitical Sciences, 1 => 99-102.

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The Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Anthony Vadkovsky, Of St. Petersburg and Ladoga diocese, village Shiringushi, Zubovo-Polyansky district of Mordovia, The Holy Synod, The Local Council, Finland, the Patriarch.