Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia, June 25, 2025
Photo: vm.ru
His Eminence Archbishop Pitirim of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryan reposed in the Lord yesterday, June 24, at the age of 65.
He served as a hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church for just shy of 30 years.
Though the official cause of death has not yet been announced, it is known that Abp. Pitirim has been suffering from heart problems for the past few years and that doctors had diagnosed him with heart failure, reports bnkomi.ru.
May his memory be eternal!
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Abp. Pitirim was born February 2, 1961, on a farm in Nizhny, Krasnodar Krai, in a working-class family. He was a subdeacon and cell attendant to Archbishop Hermogen (Orekhov) of Krasnodar and Kuban.
On November 22, 1982, he was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Isidore of Arkhangelsk with assignment to the Komi Republic.
On August 27, 1984, he took monastic vows with the name Pitirim in honor of St. Pitirim, the Ust-Vym wonderworker.
He entered the correspondence program of the Moscow Theological Schools.
On March 1, 1987, he was ordained a hieromonk in the Church of All Saints in Arkhangelsk by Bishop Isidore. He served in various parishes in the Komi Republic and the Arkhangelsk Province.
On September 20, 1994, he was appointed abbot of the Holy Trinity-Stephen-Ulyanov Monastery.
On April 7, 1994, he was elevated to the rank of igumen.
On October 6, 1995, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.
On October 8, 1995, he was elected Bishop of Syktyvkar and Vorkuta. He was consecrated on December 19, 1995, in the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow.
In December 2005 he defended his doctoral thesis on the modern history of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Kiev Theological Academy.
By decision of the Holy Synod of April 16, 2016 (journal No. 6), in connection with the formation of the Vorkuta diocese, he was given the title “of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryan.” At the same time, by decision of the Synod, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop.
By decision of the Holy Synod of December 27, 2016 (journal No. 130), he was confirmed in the position of sacred archimandrite of the Trinity-Stephen-Ulyanov Monastery in the village of Ulyanova, Komi Republic, and the Ust-Vym Michael the Archangel Monastery in the village of Ust-Vym, Komi Republic.
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