Zosima Davydov

Zosimus ( bourgeois Russian Игорь Васильевич Давыдов, Igor Vasilyevich Davidov, born September 12, 1963 in Krasnoyarsk, † May 9, 2010 in Yakutsk ) was a Russian Orthodox Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk.

Life

Bishop Zosimus was born in Krasnoyarsk. In 1968 the family moved to Moscow, where in 1980 he completed his high school education. He enrolled at the Moscow Art School, at the same time he was active as a preacher and clerk in the Church of the Martyrs, and the Menshikov Tower in Moscow. From 1985 to 1987 he did his service in the Soviet Army and served as a reservist in the renovation of the Moscow Danilov Monastery, the official residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, involved.

In 1988 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. In 1990, he joined the Order of the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius and was recorded on 16 December 1991 by Archimandrite Theognost. He received the tonsure and the typical religious name Zosimus. By Alexy II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was awarded in April 1992 the ordination to the diaconate, on 13 December 1992, the ordination.

From August 1998 to October 2000 Zosimus was active in the pastoral mission in Jerusalem, where he was involved in the 2000 - year celebration. After working in the Danilov Monastery, he was from 2001 Sacristan Monastery operates. On 12 September 2003 Zosimus was appointed abbot.

By decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 17 August 2004 he was Superior Bishop of Yakutsk and Lena. Took place on 26 August 2004 by Patriarch Alexy II was appointed archimandrite and on 27 September 2004 consecrated bishop in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral.

Bishop Zosimus died of a heart attack.