Moscow, June 5, 2018
Photo: orthodox.ee His Eminence Archbishpo Evgeny of Verey was officially installed as the new Metropolitan of Tallinn on Sunday, taking on the primatial see of the Estonian Orthodox Church, reports the site of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The archbishop was elected by the Holy Synod of the Estonian Orthodox Church at an extraordinary session in Tallinn’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on May 29. He succeeds His Eminence Metropolitan Cornelius who reposed on April 19.
During the Little Entrance in the Sunday Divine Liturgy at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow presented Abp. Evgeny with a gramota reading, “With this gramota, in accordance with paragraph three of the Patriarchal Tomos of April 26, 1993 and the norms of canon law, we affirm the will of the Synod of the Estonian Orthodox Church to elect Your Eminence as the Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, the Primate of the Estonian Orthodox Church.”
Photo: orthodox.ee The patriarch then read out a decree elevating Abp. Evgeny to the rank of metropolitan with the right to wear a second Panagia within the territory of the Estonian Orthodox Church. He then placed a white klobuk on him, which only metropolitans wear in the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Abp. Evgeny of Verey was born October 9, 1957 in Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1983 and the Academy in 1987 with the thesis “Pastoral Care in the Russian Church in the Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries.”
He was tonsured as a monk with the name Evgeny on July 27, 1986, and was ordained as a hierodeacon on August 3 and as a hieromonk on August 28. He was elevated to the rank of igumen on Pascha in 1988 and to that of archimandrite on January 1, 1989, being appointed the deputy rector of the Moscow Theological Seminary and later as inspector. He later served as rector of the Stavropol Theological Seminary, and in 1994 was appointed as the acting Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He was consecrated as the Bishop of Verey on April 16, 1994, and in July 1995 he was appointed the rector of Moscow theological schools. In July 1998 he became the Chairman of the Educational Committee.
He was elevated to the rank of archbishop on February 25, 2000. In 2004 he was awarded the academic title of Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy.
He is a member of the Russian President’s Council for Relations with Religious Organizations, the World Russian People’s Council, the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, the Synodal Commission for Canonizations, and the Coordination Center for the Development of the Theological Sciences in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a member of the Commission for Dialogue with the Russian Church Abroad from 2005 to 2007.
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