Church of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion, Archbishop of Vereya in Cheryomushki
Hieromartyr Hilarion (secular name Vladimir Alexeyevich Troitsky) was an outstanding theologian, church writer, and one of the most influential hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first quarter of the 20th century. Born into the family of a village priest in Moscow Province, he received a profound spiritual education, progressing from student to professor at the Moscow Theological Academy in 1913. That same year, he took monastic vows with the name Hilarion, devoting himself entirely to serving the Church and scholarship. His Eminence Hilarion played a key role at the All-Russian Local Council in 1917, where his famous speech “Why is it necessary to restore the Patriarchate?” became one of the decisive arguments for restoring this institution, which had been abolished two centuries earlier. Following the election of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, Archimandrite Hilarion became his closest associate, assuming the position of secretary and chief theological advisor, and was soon consecrated Bishop of Vereya and appointed abbot of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery. The years of persecution against the Church did not spare him: repeatedly arrested and exiled, Saint Hilarion died in 1929 on his way to Central Asia after contracting typhus. On July 24, 1999, his honorable relics were discovered and transferred to the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow. In August 2000, at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Hilarion was canonized for church-wide veneration among the host of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. In memory of the saint, on May 28, 2016, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, a temporary church in his honor was consecrated in Cheryomushki, where services are held in the small church of the Mother of God “Addition of Wisdom” (Bogomater’ “Pribavlenie Uma”). The construction of a single-domed church in the style of Vladimir-Suzdal churches of the 12th-13th centuries is planned. Currently, the temporary wooden church is well-appointed, and active spiritual life continues in the parish: a Sunday School operates, youth work is conducted, and social and missionary services are carried out.
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