Archpriest Pavel Adeelheim was killed in Pskov

Archpriest Pavel Adeelheim, a priest of the churches of the holy captive wives and the Apostle Matthew, a former Soviet Politzek, was killed in Pskov. This was reported in his blog by the editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Pskov Province" Lev Schlosberg. The murder occurred on Monday evening. The priest was killed by a 27-year-old guest from Moscow, who arrived at Adelheim on the recommendation of a woman and lived in his house for three days. According to Schlosberg, a guest suffering from a mental illness killed a priest during a conversation in the kitchen, hitting him with a knife in his stomach.

After that, the killer tried to commit suicide, inflicting two blows with a knife. Now he is hospitalized, he is undergoing surgery. According to the journalist, the surname of the killer is Chelintsev.

Meanwhile, the Pskov news feed with reference to unofficial information reports that the killer tried to commit suicide during the detention. Also, according to eyewitnesses, he shouted that Satan ordered him to kill the priest.

Credo.ru with reference to the family of the deceased writes that the killer did not live in the priest's house. According to the publication, he visited Adelheim two days ago, after which he left, and on Monday suddenly returned and committed a murder.

Adeelheim was born in 1938 in Rostov-on-Don. Since 1946, after the arrest of the mother, he was brought up in an orphanage. When the mother was freed, he lived with her in a settlement in Kazakhstan. In 1954 he became a novice of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. He studied at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, from where he was excluded in 1959 Igumn Filaret, the current patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus'-Ukrainian, for political reasons.

In 1964 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy, served as a priest in the Uzbek city of Kagan. In 1969 he was arrested, and in 1970 he was sentenced to three years in colony for "slander for the Soviet system." In 1971, during the unrest in the colony, he lost his right leg. After liberation, he continued to serve as a priest. Since 1976 he was a clergy of the Pskov diocese.

He served in the Pskov Church of the Holy Miroine wives (until 2008 - rector) and the Church of the Apostle Matthew in the suburban village of Piskovichi. At the Church in Piskovichi in 1993, he opened a shelter for orphanages. He was suspended from rectification in the Pskov temple as a result of a 20-year conflict with the Metropolitan of Pskov and Velikoluksky Eusebius.

In 2012, Adeelheim sued with the parish assembly of this temple along with another 13 former members. All of them were excluded from the meeting without explanation.

Adeelheim is the author of a number of theological works. The most famous of them is the "dogma of the church in canons and practice" (2002).

In addition, the Archpriest made public speaking on problematic issues of intra -church life. So, in May 2008, he criticized the draft Regulation on the church court of the Russian Orthodox Church, indicating the contradiction of a number of norms of this document to the principles of both Russian legislation and church law. Nevertheless, in June of the same year, the situation was adopted by the Bishop Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church.