Bishop Panteleimon Orekhovo-Zuevsky, biography and activities

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Arkady Viktorovich Shatov, the future Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon, was born in 1950 in Moscow. He graduated from high school there. From 1968 to 1970 he served in the army. In 1971 he got married. He worked as an orderly in one of the Moscow clinics. Human suffering and death led him to understand his own destiny in life.

Arkady Shatov becomes a hospital priest. The way to God was opened to him through concern for the needs of people.

He was baptized in 1974. Spiritual meetings and correspondence had a great influence on him. And, above all, with Archimandrite Tavrion. Archpriest Tikhon Pelikh and Archimandrite Pavel (Gruzdev) had no less influence. Arkady Shatov entered the second year of the seminary in Moscow in 1977. And since 1978, his priestly service begins.

Currently, Bishop Panteleimon is a widow, all four of his daughters are married, growing up 22 grandchildren.

Priestly service

1978 - ordination to the rank of deacon and transfer to the correspondence department of the seminary.

1979 - ordination to the priesthood and appointment to a rural church in the Moscow region.

1984 - transferred to the Stupin Tikhvin church, and in 1987 - to the Smolensky church with. Grebnevo.

The end of 1990 - Rector of the Church of Tsarevich Dimitri.

1991 - head and confessor of the Orthodox help service "Mercy".

1992 - Confessor of the School of Sisters of Mercy, named St. Demetrius.

2002 - Appointment as chairman of the commission on CSD in the Diocesan Council of the capital.

Since 2005 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Alexei Hospital.

2009 - hosted the wife of US President Barack Obama at the Nursing School.

2010 - met Patriarch Bartholomew (from Constantinople), who visited the Russian Orthodox Church, who called the activity of the school of sisters of mercy a feat of love.

May 2010 - elected bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky, named Panteleimon and elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

March 2011 - membership in the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, chairman of the charity department, ruling bishop of the Smolensk diocese - officiates in Smolensk.

2011 – Creates a sisterhood of mercy dedicated to the Hodegetria of Smolensk icon, creates a group of volunteers who help the homeless.

2012 - organizer and participant of the consecration of the memorial church near the Katyn memorial complex near the city of Smolensk.

Since 2013 - Bishop Panteleimon Orekhovo-Zuevsky and vicar of Patriarch Kirill.

2010 - organization of assistance to fire victims, 2012 -assistance to flood victims in the city of Krymsk, 2013 - assistance from floods in the Far East of the country, 2014-2015 - active and continuous support for refugees from warring Ukraine.

God's call to do good sounds in every heart

Bishop Panteleimon of Orekhovo-Zuevsky determines and organizes almost all the work of the Mercy service. In 2010, the fire victims of different regions of Russia felt the care and effective assistance from the Russian Orthodox Church. They received more than 100 million rubles for the purchase of housing. Hundreds of tons of food and other necessary assistance were also sent to the affected areas.

One of the main directions in the work of his department in the Synod is the real necessary assistance to families and women in crisis: the organization of church shelters, centers for pregnant women, for mothers with children.

The Charity Department of the Russian Orthodox Church did not stand aside during the flood in the Krasnodar Territory, all donations, about 51 million rubles, were given to the victims.

Assistance to the Russian Orthodox Church was provided in the city of Krymsk. Bishop Panteleimon personally visited there and met with the leadership of the emergency headquarters.

For the victims of the floods in the Far East, the Russian Orthodox Church collected and donated more than 100 million rubles.

Bishop Panteleimon organized church support for those who suffered from hostilities in Ukraine: he coordinated the work of helping refugees and internally displaced persons, and created centers to help these people.

Activities of the country's largest Orthodoxchurch service "Mercy" is difficult to evaluate. It helps many categories of people in need: the disabled, children and adults, patients of various clinics, the homeless, lonely old people, needy large and low-income families.

The social and political activities of the bishop

Vladyka Panteleimon Bishop Orekhovo-Zuyevsky sharply criticized the draft ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans, opposed the state's refusal to support socially oriented NGOs in 2015.

In July 2017, he demanded an investigation into the incident at the boarding school in Trubachevo, supported the project on special guardianship of incompetent members of society and the protection of their rights.

Church and secular awards

Bishop Panteleimon has been awarded by the Russian Orthodox Church five orders of Orthodox saints of various degrees.

In 2015 the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia presented him with the medal "For Commonwe alth in the Name of Salvation", and the leadership of the Kemerovo Region - the Order of Honor of Kuzbass.