Panchenko Novel Nikolaevich (celibate priest Modest)

Panchenko Novel Nikolaevich (celibate priest Modest)

The celibate priest Modest (in the world Roman Nikolaevich Panchenko) was born on June 6, 1974 in the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk of the Ukrainian SSR. He is baptized in infancy in the Pokrovsk temple of the village of Taromskoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region. 

Education

Upon termination of high school studied at the Dniprodzerzhynsk technical university. In 1996 entered  the Moscow theological seminary.

Biography

1999-2001

On December 4, 1999 by the rector of the Moscow spiritual schools  bishop Evgeny  it is delivered in the reader. On a last year of seminary came to number of brotherhood of Trinity-Sergius Lavra and continued training in the Moscow spiritual academy at the correspondence sector. In two years the deputy of monastery  bishop Sergiyevo-Posadsky Theognostus  tonsures in monkhood with a name Modest in honor of the prelate Modest, the patriarch Jerusalem.

2002-2007

On August 18, 2002 in Assumption Cathedral of monastery it is imposed in a dignity of the hierodeacon, on December 26, 2007 — in the celibate priest's dignity. Hirotoniya  the bishop Sergiyevo-Posadsky Theognostus made.

2014

In 2014 in attention to works for the benefit of Sacred Church and in connection with the 700 anniversary of the Reverend Sergey of Radonezh the decree of the Most Saint Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill  it is awarded  with the Patriarchal sign "700 anniversary of the Reverend Sergey of Radonezh".

2020: Death from COVID-19 coronavirus

On May 14, 2020 became about the death of the fifth monk of Trinity-Sergius Lavra of the celibate priest Modest (Panchenko). The priest died from the complications caused by a koronavirusny infection of COVID-19. He was 45 years old, reported on the website of the Moscow city diocese.

The celibate priest Modest was engaged in educational and missionary activity, taught the Scripture in high school of the Orthodox gymnasium of a name of the Reverend Sergius in Sergiyev Posad, was the senior teacher of the Center of education of the military personnel  of the Orthodox Christian Sacred Tikhonovsky of humanities university, taught theological courses at Voskresensk a farmstead (temple of the apostle Pyotr and Pavel).

Long time he was the senior priest at Boarding school of a name of the Reverend Sergey of Radonezh in the village of Toporkovo near Sergiyev Posad.^[1] 

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