Juvenal (Poyarkov)

Juwenali (Russian Ювеналий, civil: Vladimir Kirilovitch Poyarkov, Владимир Кириллович Поярков; born September 22, 1935 in Yaroslavl ) is a Russian Orthodox priest, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna.

Life

Juwenali visited an Orthodox seminary and entered 1953 in the Theological Academy in Leningrad, where in 1957 he graduated. On October 10, 1959, he received the tonsure, on January 1, 1960, ordained a priest in 1962 and Hegumen.

After his elevation to the Archimandrite on February 21 in 1963 on December 25, 1965 in the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra his episcopal consecration by the Metropolitan of Leningrad Nikodim. He initially worked as a ( titular ) Bishop of the Diocese of Moscow Zaraysk until 1969, he was Bishop of Tula and Beljow on March 20. On June 2, 1971 his collection was done by Archbishop Pimen I, and a year later on 27 April for the Metropolitans. Since June 11, 1977 he is the Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna. He was for many years for External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church responsible and holds important church offices. In 1962 he was commissioned by his church in Tegel (West Berlin ) worked as a priest. Here he published a German -language church magazine.

Shortly after its founding Poyarkov was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and was one of the co-designers of all six Allchristlichen peace meetings from 1961 to 1985 in Prague.

His office is the New Novodevichy Convent, which is since 1964 the seat of the metropolitans. In the tenure of Patriarch Alexius II, he was considered a right hand of the Moscow Patriarch. During the visit of a delegation of the Bavarian state parliament in 2004, he reported with satisfaction that his church, at that time already returned more than 1,000 churches.