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Our Spiritual Genealogy
Do not renounce your roots -
lest you be cut off from the
root!
1. Our Spiritual Father is Father John (Vasilevski)
a Bulgarian of ancient lineage of Bulgarian
Scholars and Clergymen.
One of
his ancestors is the prominent pious Man of
letters Grandfather Dragan, for whom was ordered
in "Zograph" the renowned Draganov Menaion. This
family Tree by length in time exceeds two times
the history of the United States and is written
by the Holy Hierarch Sophronius of Vratsa, after
his careful study and personal conversation with
representatives of the family. Today it is
stored as a valuable historical monument in BAS
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
2.
Spiritual Father of Father John
is Archimandrite Seraphim (Alexiev)
Professor Doctor (1912-1993).
Saint, whose Spiritual writings
are known not only in Bulgaria
but in Russia, in the United
States and everywhere where with
love is preached and professed
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3. His Spiritual Father is Archbishop
Seraphim (Sobolev)
(1 Dec. 1881 — 26 Feb. 1950)
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5. His Spiritual Father is St.
Theophan the Recluse
(8 Jan. 1815 — 6 Jan. 1894)
- renowned worldwide Venerable
Holy Hierarch, preacher and
zealot of Holy Orthodoxy. |
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Further back in time
our Spiritual Genealogy Tree
continues with ascetics giants and zealots of
Holy Orthodoxy, for a more detailed revealing of
which there would be required a special
additional study and research.
Whereas our goal here is to present it as short
as possible - only for initial and popular
information.
Supplied short historical records.
0001_
At the end of his earthly life Archbishop
Seraphim (Sobolev) under the active pressure and
machinations of the mason knyaz Andrew Lieven,
falls in deception and is incited against his
Spiritual Father St.Theophan of Poltava, enters
in conflict with him, slanders him and joins the
godless and god-fighting "church" of the Moscow
patriarchate. The mason Andrew Lieven is the son
of the mason Minister knyaz Lieven who
personally organized the persecution against
Motovilov, because of the categorical refusal of
Motovilov to accept masonry. (Motovilov is a
spiritual child of St.Seraphim of Sarov). About
the persecution against Motovilov, organized by
Minister knyaz Lieven, read Sergei Nilus "The
Great in the Small":
"Barataev called him (Motovilov) to himself and
said: You will never get this position as you will
never see your own ears. And not only will you
not get this position, but you will not get any
other public position, for both Musin-Pushkin,
and the Minister knyaz Lieven – are
subordinated to me masons. My order - is law for
them!"
0002_ From 1968 to 1992 - the Genuine Orthodox
Church of Bulgaria is without connection with a
canonical Hierarh due to the falling away of the
Bulgarian Patriarchate from the Holy Orthodoxy
and its falling into the pan-heresy of ecumenism
(as a subordinate structure of the godless and
god-fighting "church" of the Moscow
patriarchate).
The Hierarchs and many Priests who disagreed
with the apostasy were killed or sent to
concentration camps. One of them is Schema-arhimandrite
Macarius (known among the unacquainted people as
"Father Michael").
Alive and at liberty remain only the
subordinated and selected by the regime - and
thus the god-fighting government nationalizes
the administration and the Bulgarian Church
ceases to be Orthodox, ceases to be a Church at
all - turns under the appearance of "church"
into a repressive machine that is completely
subordinated to the apparatus of the
god-fighting government (the details are known -
agents, their dossiers and so on - and it is not
necessary to repeat them).
So the Genuine Orthodox Church of Bulgaria is
represented by a few zealots, laity and Priests
who neither obey the administration of the fake
state "church" nor are in connection with them -
and live secret but Genuine Church life, in
conditions of constant repressions,
persecutions, risk to life and without
connection to a canonical Hierarchy - closed
behind the Iron curtain and physically detached
from the Canonical Hierarchies worldwide
0004_ In 1992 Father John restores the unity of
the Genuine Orthodox Church of Bulgaria with a
canonical Orthodox Hierarchy, as he joins with
his flock the Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece,
which is under the Spiritual in Christ Guidance
of Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens.
From 1993 onwards the Temporary administrator of
the Bulgarian Genuine Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Euthymius three times before the
flock offers to Father John Episcopal Rank, but
Father John refuses this high honor, grounding
himself on his personal conviction that he will
be more useful in the Serving of the Lord as a
regular Priest - regular officer from the
Invincible and All-conquering Glorious Army of
the Lord Jesus Christ – our King and God!
Several years later the same proposal is given
to him at a Synodal Meeting in connection with
the newborn Genuine Orthodox Church of Serbia,
in the building of which he has personally had
active participation. But Father John apologizes
and refuses on the same grounds. His request is
not considered uncanonical and is granted: he
remains an ordinary regular Orthodox Priest.
0006_ For several years the managing
Metropolitan insists on Father John’s coming and
staying in serving in Greece. Initially Father
John refuses because he does not want to lead an
easy life in Greece, when in Bulgaria the
congregation endures hardship and persecution.
But a few years later, after the managing
Metropolitan ordains Spiritual children of
Father John for Priests, to help in the Serving
among the flock and the difficulties in Bulgaria
are overcomed, Father John agrees and in 1999
comes and stays in Serving in Greece. Here he is
gladly met especially by the Pontic Greeks, who
are in need of a Russian-speaking shepherd - and
since then Father John lives in the mountains of
Northern Greece and has spiritual children
throughout Greece.
0007_ The confession of the Holy Orthodox Faith
in the Genuine Orthodox Church of Bulgaria to
this day remains pure and spotless - such as it
was confessed by Orthodox Bulgaria even before
the bolshevik invasion of our Motherland, to wit
- such as it was preached even by the Holy
Apostles and Holy Fathers of the Church
It is an
indubitable fact that the Holy Orthodox Faith
can not be held in purity and spotlessness
without the Holy Protection of God the Holy
Spirit Himself!
Powerful human States and Civilizations bend
under the pressure of their enemies and
disappear from the face of the earth, or to
withstand - are forced and change their laws
repeatedly. In the testimony of the great
scientist Blaise Pascal, there has not existed
even one powerful human State - even for 1000
years without resorting to such bending! By
human means and with human might – it is
impossible! Proven impossible!
Therefore - indubitable Divine Evidence is the
fact that even today, when the majority of the
local churches fell in the apostasy which
St.Apostle Paul speaks of (2.Sol.2:2-3), in the
pan-heresy of ecumenism, however, the Holy
Orthodox Church does not communicate with the
retreated from the Orthodoxy local "churches"
and globally remains unchanged and holds to this
very day the Holy Orthodox Faith - in such
purity as it was preached 2,000 years ago by the
Holy Apostles of Christ! United with Her is the
Genuine Orthodox Church in Bulgaria. This
amazing phenomenon - endurance changelessness
and purity of the Faith, held such as it was
revealed to men by the Eternal Unchanging
Absolute God Himself, this phenomenon unique
in all times and all over the world - was made
possible not by human power and not by human
might, but - only thanks to the Divine Absolute
Power of God the Holy Spirit Himself! He, God
the Holy Spirit Himself, Sent by the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself our King and God (John.15:26) by
His promise (John.15:7), is Who Acts and Holds
the Church and the Faith - by the prayers of the
Holy Apostles and all Holy Fathers of the
Church.
By their Holy prayers may this seriousness
of the Bulgarians, which produces such an
impression and amazes even the enemies -
remain a characteristic of the Bulgarian
Genuine Orthodoxy forever:
- firmer than the steel of the sword that cuts
with lightning speed - and things remain already
on the right and left of it - a fateful action!
–
more invincible than the fire
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a
burning force that devours all
who
resist on its way,
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more brilliant than the lightning that cuts the
darkness of the black stormy roaring sky,
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more
stable and long-lived
than the stones from which people build their
monuments
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in attempts and search
for
human glorification,
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forever means:
founded on the One Absolute Stone on Whom, the
one who stumbles - will be broken to pieces, and
the one on whom He falls - will be crushed
(Rom.9:32-33) - the Eternal Stone - our
Savior King Lord and God Jesus Christ – the
Creator the Maker and Absolute Sovereign of all
things visible and invisible!
(1.Cor.15:25-28,
Eph.1:22,
Col.1:16,
John.20:28:
My Lord and my God!
John.1:1:
And the Word was God!
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