Uralsk, Kazakhstan, April 24, 2025
Photo: mitropolia.kz
His Eminence Archbishop Anthony (Moskalenko), a retired bishop formerly of Uralsk, reposed in the Lord yesterday.
The hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church was 84 years old. He served in the episcopal dignity for 40 years, reports Patriarchia.ru.
May Abp. Anthony’s memory be eternal!
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Abp. Anthony was born on September 29, 1940, in Khabarovsk in a working-class family.
From 1964, he served as a subdeacon to Archbishop Veniamin (Novitsky) of Irkutsk.
In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Irkutsk University.
On September 27, 1969, he was ordained as a deacon in Novosibirsk, and on October 12 — as a priest, serving in parishes in Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk.
On April 13, 1970, he took monastic vows.
From 1970-73, he studied by correspondence at the Moscow Theological Seminary. In 1977, he graduated by correspondence from the Moscow Theological Academy.
In 1981, he was transferred to serve in the Khmelnitsky Diocese, serving in a church in Dunaevtsy, Khmelnitsky Province.
On October 12, 1984, he was appointed rector of St. Vladimir’s Cathedral in Kiev and Chancellor of the Ukrainian Exarchate.
On October 13, 1985, he was consecrated as Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, vicar of the Kiev Diocese.
On December 30, 1986, he was transferred to the Chernivtsi Diocese.
On November 23, 1990, Metropolitan Philaret of Kiev (Denisenko, later anathematized) relieved him from managing the Chernivtsi Diocese and sent him to the disposition of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
On January 30, 1991, he was appointed ruling bishop of the newly formed Uralsk Diocese.
On February 25, 1997, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop.
From December 15, 2012, he served as Chairman of the Audit Commission of the Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He was granted retirement by the Holy Synod May 27, 2022. The city of Uralsk was designated as his place of residence.
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