Members of the "Mikhailovsky monastery" under Penza threaten self -immolation if their buildings are demolished

The authorities of the Penza region in the near future intend to determine the organization to dismantle illegal buildings, unauthorizedly erected in the village of Victory near Penza under the guise of the monastery of a true legal church .

Dismantling should be under the control of the bailiffs executing a court decision. This, as reports on Wednesday, "Interfax" was reported by the press service of the Department of the Federal Bailiff Service (UFSSP) for the region.

The decision on demolition was made by the Penza railway district court in 2008. In 2010, the court ordered the railway district department of bailiffs to dismantle the unauthorized buildings. At the same time, the owner of the site addressed the bailiffs about the public self -immolation of members of the monastery in case of trying to take measures on forced demolition, the report said.

According to the press service of the UFSSP, the so-called "Mikhailovskaya monastery" or the community of "Elder Alexy" formed in the 50s of the XX century around the wheelchair user Mikhail Shumilin. In 1992, he accepted the schema under the name "Elder Alexy."

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church deny the fact of his tonsure and call the cult of the "elder Alexy" by the movement of the sectarian and schismatic spirit, disguised as Orthodoxy.

In 1998, the former programmer Alexander Zhukov, calling himself the "father of Rafail", bought several buildings in the village of victory located near the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The church was erected here, an Orthodox cross was established, a prayer house was built.

The monastery itself is guarded by novices, representatives of the Penza diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church "Mikhailovtsy" do not let into the temple. To questions about who blessed the construction of the temple, they refuse to answer.

In January 2005, the seriously ill Mikhail Shumilin died and was buried on the territory of the Temple of the Assumption. Folk rumor declared him “saints”, the mass pilgrimage of people began to the grave, due to which Alexander Zhukov erects new buildings, the press release of the UFSSP said.

In 2008, the Penza administration appealed to the Zheleznodorozhny District Court with a lawsuit to dismantle unauthorized buildings. According to experts, the part of the land on which the illegally erected object is located is located in the natural recreation zone, which is supposed to be used as a common territory.

The court recognized the purchase and sale of the site invalid. Also in 2008, the bailiffs received the enforcement sheet of the court for enforcement, obliging Zhukov to dismantle the unauthorized buildings.

“Father Rafail” has not fulfilled these requirements, today 254 decisions have been drawn up to impose a fine totaling 631.5 thousand rubles, the report said.

The press service also notes that Alexander Zhukov pays fines, and in explanations about the failure to fulfill the court decision indicates that it is not going to demolish prayer houses, since this decision contradicts the interests of believers.

About the truly Orthodox Church

On the page of the True Orthodox Church (IPC) on the VKontakte social network, this religious organization positions itself as follows:

1. The True-Orthodox Church is the successor of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Cathedral and Apostolic Church of the Eastern rite, split by the 1917 revolution into several canonically equal parts, each of which expressed its attitude to the Bolsheviks: Bolsheviks:

- Foreign Church - not recognition, forced emigration - a true Orthodox Church - not recognition, open resistance
- catacomb Orthodox Church - not recognition, secret resistance (underground)
- The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate - recognition, maintenance of the interests of the existing regime
.

2. The spiritual inspirer of the True Orthodox Church became the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Tikhon (Belavin), who anathematized God-finding power and blessed the creation of church resistance (catacomb church) (1925); The ancestor is the Metropolitan of Petrograd Joseph (Petrov), uniting all that did not recognize the Moscow Patriarchate (1927).

3. The concept of “true Orthodoxy” included the desire of a certain part of the Orthodox people to maintain their faith free from the dictatorship of any state power, political party or community, and in all the rest to observe it in accordance with the commandments of the Holy Apostles, the Holy Ecumenical and Local Councils and Holy Fathers.

4. The canonical foundation of the True Orthodox Church is the definitions and decisions of the Holy Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917 - 1918.

5. From historical experience of 1937 - 1941 The true Orthodox Church is a martyr Church, washed by the blood of uncompromising fighters for the purity of Orthodoxy. The memory of this imposes a special moral responsibility on its clergy and flock.

The official Internet portal of the IPC tells more about the history of this church.

The IPC, says this essay, "as a branch of the local Russian church, organizationally began its formation in the late 20s and early 30s of the 20th century, it formed as a result of the refusal of most of the episcopate and clergy of the Russian Church to cooperate with the communist God-finding regime in the USSR, which the pro-respectable group , headed by the Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky)."

It is further stated that "as a result of the scholarship, who was committed by the Metropolitan Sergius, under the leadership of the OGPU-NKVD, in the USSR, from that time there were an official (" Soviet "or" red ") church in the USSR, which in 1943, by order of Stalin, was formalized in the" Moscow Patriarchate ", and an independent from the Blessed regime of the True Orthodox Church (IPC). The latter as a result of cruel brutal regime. Repression and persecution was forced to switch to an illegal way of service, which is why she had another name - the catacomb church. "

"The catacomb church as a branch of the once united local Russian church is also called" Tikhonovskaya " - named Holy Patriarch Tikhon (Belavina)," the IPC website says.

Further, the essay tells about the canonical foundation of the IPC:

"The canonical foundation of the Russian True Orthodox Church is based on the decree of Patriarch Tikhon N362 of November 7/20, 1920.

Saint Tikhon was the last legal patriarch of the Russian Church, elected all -Russian local cathedral, expressing the fullness of the Russian Church.

St. Patriarch Tikhon prophetically provided for two forms of church administration in the Russian Church.

The first is expressed in the Patriarchal will of December 25/January 7, 1925, which was published immediately after the mysterious death of the Conscious. Understanding that the Bogoblars, aimed at the complete destruction of the true Church of Christ, after his death will not allow the free local cathedral to gather for the election of a new legal patriarch and thus deprive the Russian Church of the canonical head, St. Patriarch Tikhon in accordance with the decision of the Local Council of 1917 - 1918. He appointed the locomotives of the Patriarchal Thronage: Metropolitans of Kirill (Smirnov) of Kazan (later - one of the founders of the catacomb church), Agafangel (Preobrazhensky) of Yaroslavl and Peter (Polyansky) of Krutitsky. The will specifically stipulated that if Metropolitan Kirill for reasons beyond his control would not be able to enter into the rights of the loco, then Metropolitan Agafangel should be replaced by, if neither Metropolitan Cyril, nor Metropolitan Agafangel, then Metropolitan's rights will have to join Metropolitan's rights. As you know, the Metropolitans Kirill and Agafangel were arrested by the God -fighters, in connection with which, according to the will of St. Patriarch, it was St. Peter by the Holy Peter to suffer a heavy cross of the Primary Service. In conditions of persecution, anticipating his close arrest, Metropolitan Peter appointed temporary deputies, one of which was St. New Martyr Metropolitan Joseph (Petrov, +1937) Petrogradsky, one of the founding fathers of the catacomb church.

The main task of introducing the temporary form of managing the Church - locomotives and their deputies - was to convene a free cathedral at the first opportunity to convene a new canonical patriarch and restore legal power in the Russian Church. Such a secret cathedral was actually carried out in 1926 by collecting signatures of all Orthodox hierarchs.

More than 70 His Grace Russian Church voted for the election of the new patriarch of St. Metropolitan Kirill (Smirnova, +1937) of Kazan, but the conciliar will of the bishop of the Russian Church was not implemented due to opposition to God-finding power. Almost all the bishops voting for the candidacy of Metropolitan Cyril were arrested and graduated in prisons and camps. Soon, with the assistance of the OGPU, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) usurped church power, which began the Sergian split in the Russian Church. "

It should be noted that church movements, similar to the IPCs arose not only in Russia, but also a number of other Orthodox countries. It also happened in the 1920s.

If the main reason for the split in the Russian Church was the declared loyalty of atheistic power, then in the Elladskiy, Bulgarian and Romanian churches - such an occasion was the transition to the Novoyolian calendar, perceived by some believers as apostasy from Orthodoxy.

That part of the Orthodox clergy and laity who did not accept these innovations began to call themselves true-Orthodox Christians (IPH), and their organizational structures, respectively, of the True Orthodox Church. In Greece, the name "Old -West Church" is also used.