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JAPANESE MEETION OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
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Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan.
Address: Metochy of the Moscow Patriarchate in Tokyo, 2-12-17, Hon-komagome, Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo-tō, 113-0021, JAPAN. (ロシア正教会モスクワ総主教庁駐日ポドウォリエ、〒113-0021、東京都文京区本駒込、2-12-17.)
Tel/fax: (81-3) 3947-9404
Official website: http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/podvorie/
The metochion of the Moscow Patriarchate in Tokyo is the representative office of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan. Its tasks include the spiritual nourishment of Russian believers who, by the will of fate, find themselves in Japan, and those Orthodox Christians from different countries, who are parishioners of the metochion. The functions of the metochion include information intermediation between the Russian Orthodox Church and other Churches, religious communities, public organizations Japan, as well as organizing a pilgrimage of Japanese believers to Russia. Currently, the rector of the metochion, Rev. Nikolai Katsuban maintains close contacts with the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church, once a month he serves with the head of the Japanese Church, Metropolitan Daniel (Nushiro), and takes an active part in various events held Japanese Church. The monastery is engaged in educational activities only on the territory of the monastery itself and its branches.
Patriarchal Compound in Japan originates from Japanese parishes that were under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate during the division of the Japanese Orthodox flock between 1947 and 1970.
In 1940, after the adoption of the “Law on Religious Organizations” in Japan, according to which foreigners could not stand at the head religious organization, Metropolitan of Japan Sergius (Tikhomirov) was removed from the post of primate and the Japanese flock was headed by Bishop Nicholas (Ono), consecrated in Harbin by the bishops of the Russian Church Abroad.
After the end of the Second World War, the Japanese Consistory at the end of March 1946 decided to reunite with the Moscow Partiarchate and the Japanese flock, led by Bishop Nicholas, was received by Patriarch Alexy I. In November 1946, the Moscow Patriarchate sent two bishops to Japan - Bishop of Odessa and Kirovograd Sergius (Larin) and Bishop of Chernigov and Nizhyn Boris (Vik), but the headquarters of the occupation forces under the command of General MacArthur did not allow them into Japan and invited a bishop from " American Metropolis."
Although the majority of Japanese Orthodox accepted Bishop Benjamin (Basalyga) from America at the beginning of 1947 and entered the jurisdiction of the “American Metropolis,” the few who remained faithful to the Moscow Patriarchate organized the “True Orthodox Church” of Japan and were led by Bishop Nicholas (Ono) and Archpriest Anthony Takai.
On September 30, 1957, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church officially recognized this Church as the true Japanese Orthodox Church. Protopresbyter Anthony Takai became the head of the Church. On January 3, 1966, he died at an old age, and his successor was Hieromonk Nicholas (Sayama), who on December 10, 1967, at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, was ordained Bishop of Tokyo and Japan and declared the third Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church.
In 1970, complete reconciliation took place between the two groups of Orthodox Christians in Japan and the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church was formed. In this regard, by the decision of the Holy Synod, on April 10, 1970, a new stage of activity began for the Japanese Orthodox Church, governed by Bishop Nicholas (Sayama), now as a Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church. Bishop Nicholas was relieved of his duties as Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church and head of the Japanese Mission and appointed rector of the Compound.
The metochion to this day does not have its own permanent temple and rents territory and premises belonging to the Russian Embassy in Japan for this purpose. May 22, 1979, the day of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Compound was registered as a religious legal entity in Japan with a change of name from the “Japanese Orthodox Church” to the “Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Japan.”
Monastery in the name of St. Sophia of the Wisdom of God in the city of Sanmu, village. Matsuo
Temple in the name of St. Nicholas of Myra in Tokyo
Temple in the name of the blessed. book Alexander Nevsky in Tokyo
Chapel in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. book Alexander Nevsky in Yokohama
Chapel in the name of St. equal to Nicholas of Japan at the cemetery of Russian soldiers in Nagasaki
arrival in Hitati
Used materials
Official website of the Compound:
http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/podvorie/
http://tserkov.info/numbers/orthodox/?ID=1401
List of “Foreign Church Institutions of the Moscow Patriarchate”:
http://www.russian-orthodox-church.org.ru/adr_ru.htm
After St. Nicholas of Japan and Metropolitan. Sergius (Tikhomirova). Ep. Nicholas (Ono), although he was in the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate between 1946 and 1954, was ordained by the bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, and in 1954 he transferred to the jurisdiction of the American Metropolis.
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The metochion of the Moscow Patriarchate in Tokyo is the representative office of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan. Its tasks include the spiritual care of Russian believers who, by the will of fate, find themselves in Japan, and those Orthodox Christians from different countries who are parishioners of the metochion. The functions of the metochion include information intermediation between the Russian Orthodox Church and other Churches, religious communities, public organizations in Japan, as well as organizing pilgrimages of Japanese believers to Russia. Currently, the rector of the metochion maintains close contacts with the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church, once a month he concelebrates with the Metropolitan of Tokyo and takes an active part in various events held by the Japanese Church. The monastery is engaged in educational activities only on the territory of the monastery itself and its branches.
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The Patriarchal metochion in Japan originates from the Japanese parishes that were under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate during the separation of the Japanese Orthodox flock between and the year.
Although the majority of Japanese Orthodox accepted Bishop Benjamin (Basalyga) from America at the beginning of the year and entered the jurisdiction of the “American Metropolis,” the few who remained faithful to the Moscow Patriarchate organized True Orthodox Church of Japan and were headed by Bishop Nicholas (Ono) and Archpriest Anthony Takai. On April 24 of the year, Bishop Nicholas and most of the clergy also came under the jurisdiction of the American Metropolis, after which Father Anthony took charge of the remaining parishes.
Following the visit to Japan by Bishop Juvenal of Zaraisk in September-October of the year, on October 7 of that year the Holy Synod decided to transform the deanery into Orthodox spiritual mission in Japan. Archpastoral care remained with Bishop Juvenaly, but at the same time, on December 10 of that year, Father Nicholas (Sayama) was ordained Bishop of Tokyo and Japan and declared the third primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church.
Abbots
- earlier see the section on the primates of the Japanese Church
- Nicholas (Sayama) (April 10, 1970 - July 29, 1986) bishop. Mozhaisky
- Nikolay Dmitriev (July 29, 1986 - February 26, 1987)
- Arkady Tyshchuk (February 26, 1987 - October 25, 1990)
- Nikolai Katsyuban (since July 1991) prot.
The first seeds of faith on Japanese soil were sown by the hieromonk (later archbishop) Nikolai(Kasatkin), who came to Japan in 1861 as rector of the church at the Russian Consulate in Hakodate.
For more than 50 years, Saint Nicholas worked in Japan in the field of Christ, enlightening the Japanese with the light of Truth. His services as the founder and first Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church are widely known not only in Japan and Russia, but throughout the world.
The blessed death of Archbishop Nicholas followed February 16, 1912, A in 1970 he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church with the title “equal to the apostles.”
The Metropolitan became the successor of Archbishop Nicholas Sergius(Tikhomirov), who was sent to Japan by the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1908. The fate of Metropolitan Sergius was filled with sorrows: in 1940, in connection with the entry into force of the “Law on Religious Organizations”, according to which foreigners could not stand at the head of a religious organization, he was removed from the post of Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church, and a few months before his death, which followed August 10, 1945, Metropolitan Sergius was accused of espionage by the Japanese authorities without any reason and spent about a month in prison.
In November 1946 The Moscow Patriarchate sent two bishops to Japan, but the headquarters of the occupation forces under the command of General MacArthur did not want to let them into Japan and invited a bishop from the American Metropolis.
A group of clergy and laity who disagreed with this separated from the Nikolai group and created a separate “True Orthodox Church”, headed by a bishop Nikolai Ono and archpriest Anthony Takai.
There were very few believers in this small Church, but its pride was that it still considered the Russian Orthodox Church to be its Mother Church and kept the Rules of the Church and Sacred Tradition intact.
September 30, 1957 The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at its meeting officially recognized this Church as the true Japanese Orthodox Church. It was also decided that it is the successor to the Japanese Orthodox Church, founded by Archbishop Nicholas.
At first, the prayer room of this Church was located on the territory of Nikolai-do (the former Russian school was converted into it), and later it was moved to a separate building in the Shinjuku area. The head of the Church was the protopresbyter Anthony Takai. In 1965 he died at an old age and was succeeded by the archbishop (at that time a priest) Nikolai Sayama, which December 10, 1967 in Leningrad he was ordained Bishop of Tokyo and Japan and declared the third Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church.
In April 1970 The Nikolai-do group returned to the jurisdiction of the Russian Mother Church and began its existence as the Holy Autonomous Japanese Orthodox Church. Bishop Vladimir was appointed Bishop of Tokyo and Japan. Thus, complete reconciliation took place between the two Churches.
In this regard, by the decision of the Holy Synod since April 1970 for the Japanese Orthodox Church, led by Bishop Nicholas Sayama, a new stage of activity began, now as Compounds Russian Orthodox Church. Bishop Nikolai Sayama was relieved of his duties as Primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church and Head of the Japanese Mission and appointed rector of the Compound.
May 22, 1979, on the day of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Compound was registered as a religious legal entity with the name changed from "Japanese Orthodox Church" to "Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Japan".
Since July 1991, the rector of the Compound is Archpriest Nikolai Katsuban.
“The most important thing now is to give the victims hope that everything will be fine,” said Nikita Smirnov, consular officer of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Japan, in a conversation with a correspondent of the Diakonia.ru website. “The hardest thing is that the victims lost their homes and personal belongings, and the disaster is not over yet, and a number of factors are aggravating the situation.”According to the diplomat, the victims now need support, “because what is happening here cannot be described in words.”
N. Smirnov was one of the consulate employees sent to the area most affected by the disaster - Miyagi Prefecture - to find out the fate of Russian citizens. As of March 15, only one Russian citizen was injured as a result of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This is a member of the crew of a fishing boat that ran aground in the port of Ofunato. “Everything is fine with him, he has already undergone a medical examination and was taken to Vladivostok,” the vice-consul said.
The northeastern part of Japan suffered the most as a result of the earthquake. A number of churches in the Sendai diocese of the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church suffered significant damage. The Orthodox Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Yamada (Iwate Prefecture) was destroyed. N. Smirnov said that he contacted the rector of the temple by telephone. In response to the proposal humanitarian aid the rector said that the parishioners were provided with everything they needed. As for the Russian community of the village, everyone who wished to evacuate left the village using the transport corridor organized by the embassy. In general, the village, according to the consulate employee, is a zone natural disaster: there are rubble everywhere, there are interruptions in the supply of food, there is no electricity supply.
The consulate staff does not have accurate information about the situation in the city of Ishinomaki, where the wooden church in the name of John the Evangelist could have been damaged. Due to communication problems, it took more than four days just to search for Russian citizens in this city.
According to the rector of the metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tokyo, Archpriest Nikolai Katsuban, churches in the Japanese capital were not damaged. He also noted that the fate of one parish of the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church in the Sendai diocese, and one priest, the rector of the temple in Ishinomaki, Priest Vasily Taguchi, remains unknown, with whom it is not yet possible to establish contact. There is no exact information yet about lay casualties.
Bishop Seraphim of Sendai said in a letter to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill yesterday that he also does not have accurate information about the casualties among parishioners. “Despite the fact that aid is being sent to the victims from all over the country, the full picture of what happened is still unclear due to the fact that roads and telecommunication networks have been destroyed,” Bishop Seraphim noted.
The distance from Sendai to Tokyo is about 300 kilometers. On the first day, according to Father Nikolai Katsuban, transport in Tokyo was also paralyzed and there was no electricity. “The city has provided schools for overnight accommodation for those who come to work from other cities. Now everything is more or less getting better, but there is still no gasoline at gas stations, and the electricity goes out for 3-4 hours every day. Today, background radiation in Tokyo is 8-10 times higher than normal. In this regard, citizens were asked not to leave their homes and to do wet cleaning at home. If anyone goes outside, they wear hats and protective masks. When entering the house, shoes and outerwear They are left outside,” said Father Nikolai Katsuban.
He added that on March 16, the Patriarchal Compound in Japan opens its accounts to raise funds to provide assistance to the victims. All money collected will be transferred to an account specially opened by the Japanese government to collect aid. Father Nikolai was contacted from the Vladivostok diocese, where, on behalf of the ruling bishop, a collection of a certain amount to help the victims.
When asked what kind of help the victims needed, Father Nikolai replied that information about the collection was being disseminated on local television. Money, it is noted that clothing and other things are not required.
The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service is collecting funds and has opened accounts to transfer donations for victims in Japan.
Sent condolences to the leadership of Japan and the Hierarchy of the Japanese Orthodox Church His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', who also expressed hope that “Russia’s participation in assisting Japan” could contribute to the reconciliation of our peoples.
An earthquake of magnitude 9.1, the epicenter of which was 373 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. occurred on March 11, which caused a tsunami with a wave height of about ten meters. On March 15, several more powerful earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 occurred in the same area. The total number of dead and missing exceeded 10 thousand people, more than 2 thousand were injured. After the earthquake, due to the failure of cooling systems, a regime was introduced emergency at the Fukushima-1 and Fukushima-2 nuclear power plants located in the affected area. Since Saturday, explosions have occurred at several power units at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. The population within a radius of 20 km from the nuclear power plant was evacuated.
