Metropolitan Laurus, head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II are seen in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, in this May 17, 2007 file photo
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Metropolitan Laurus dies at age 80
Posted on Mon Mar 17 2008
Patriarch Alexy prays for late Metropolitan Laurus Archbishop Hilarion to be acting chairman of Synod until election of ROCOR head
New York, March 16, Interfax - First hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York Diocese deceased on Sunday at the age of 80, the ROCOR website has reported.
Metropolitan Laurus passed away on the Feast of Orthodoxy.
He was born Vassily Mikhailovich Skurla on January 1, 1928, in the village of Ladomirova, present day Slovakia.
He was ordained to the diaconate in 1950, and became a hieromonk in 1954.
Fr. Laurus graduated from the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in 1954 and was appointed its inspector in 1960.
He was elevated to archimandrite on April 17, 1966.
Archimandrite Laurus was consecrated bishop of Manhattan on August 12, 1967, and appointed archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity on October 20, 1981.
The same year Laurus was elected First hierarch and Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York.
Metropolitan Laurus was actively involved in restoring canonical unity of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and abroad broken after the civil war.
Metropolitan Laurus will be buried at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, where the ROCOR administrative center is situated and where previous ROCOR first hierarchs were buried.
Patriarch Alexy prays for late Metropolitan Laurus
Moscow, March 17, Interfax - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II prayed for the deceased first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, on Monday morning.
The prayer for the soul of the dead metropolitan Laurus was performed during the patriarch's Liturgy for the Presanctified Gifts conducted today by Alexy II at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow.
Metropolitan Laurus died in the morning of March 16, on the day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.
Archbishop Hilarion to be acting chairman of Synod until election of ROCOR head
Moscow, March 17, Interfax - Archbishop Hilarion of the Australia and New Zealand Diocese will chair the sessions of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) until the new head of ROCOR is elected, Interfax-Religion was told at the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.
"The name of Archbishop Hilarion, the first deputy chairman of the Synod, will be mentioned during church services in all ROCOR churches after the name of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia," a spokesman for the department said.
The Bishops' Council of ROCOR is expected to elect the head of ROCOR after Orthodox Easter, which falls this year on April 27. The previous head of ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, died on Sunday.
Metropolitan Laurus' name written down in Orthodox Church history
Moscow, March 17, Interfax - The name of Metropolitan Laurus will be included eternally in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia said.
"I think Metropolitan Laurus has written his name down in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and will be remembered eternally," the Russian patriarch told journalists in Moscow on Monday after a service marking 25 years since the St. Daniel Monastery was revived.
Alexy II expressed condolences over the death of Metropolitan Laurus in the United States and said that the funeral of the first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia would be held in Jordanville on Friday.
The Moscow Patriarchate will be represented by a delegation led by Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna.
"We will pray, remembering him, and thank him for his role in the communion of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate," Alexy II said.
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