Foreword by Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II
January 29, 2024Foreword to a book about the Ukrainian Athonite elder Avvakum (Vakarov).
Archbishop Elpidophoros: Elder Avvakum was a man of quiet prayer
January 29, 2024During his visit to Mount Athos in 2013, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said, “Mount Athos is a living Byzantium, over which no historical and social processes have dominated.” As the largest Christian ascetic community on earth, it has experienced... Read more...
Testimony of Nun Feodora (Orlova) about a Cancer Patient Cured by Elder Avvakum’s Prayers
January 15, 2023The year 2019 marked the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Athonite elder Hieroschemamonk Avvakum (Vakarov). A few conferences were held to mark the anniversary, and a book was published for which a portrait of Fr Avvakum was required.... Read more...
Yannis Ipsilantis: He lived a holy life
January 15, 2022Yannis Ipsilantis is the only person still alive now who knew Fr Avvakum. He is over 80 years old and first came to St Panteleimon’s in 1947 with his father and two brothers at the age of 12 and earned... Read more...
Fr Avvakum Inherited from St Silouan of Athos the Gift of Unceasing Prayer of the Heart
July 13, 2021Beloved in the Lord, This book is about Elder Avvakum (Vakarov) of Athos and the difficult fate of the Athonite Monastery of St Panteleimon 1920s–1970s. A native of Transcarpathia, Fr Avvakum left an indelible trace on the history not only... Read more...
Foreword by Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, Honorary Chairman of the International Institute of the Athonite Legacy, President of the Friends of Mount Athos
June 15, 2021For over 1000 years, the Holy Mountain of Athos has been and remains the spiritual centre for all Orthodox Christians. For many centuries, people have come here seeking spiritual perfection, striving to love their fellow brethren and serve them, and... Read more...
Through his ascetic life Fr Avvakum left a permanent mark on the history of Slav monasticism on Mount Athos
May 12, 2021The region of Transcarpathia has produced many outstanding ascetics and confessors of Orthodoxy for the Church of Christ. One of these is the Transcarpathian Athonite elder Avvakum (Vakarov), a descendant of the ancient Transcarpathian line of the Vakarovs, some of... Read more...
Foreword on behalf of the Friends of Mount Athos (Patron: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales)
May 10, 2021We should like to thank this book’s author, Sergey Shumylo, and all who have cooperated in its publication and gathering of information on Athonite Elder Avvakum (Vakarov).
He Has Become an Edifying Example for Subsequent Generations of Orthodox Monks
April 16, 2021Elder Avvakum (Vakarov) lived an ascetic life in the Russian Monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos for over 45 years. After coming to the monastery as a young man in 1926 with the blessing of Venerable Alexis (Kabaliuk), he... Read more...
Testimony of Priest Vladimir Kuku about a Miracle of Healing on the Occasion of the Invention of the Relics of Elder Avvakum on Mount Athos
February 15, 2021I, priest Vladimir Kúku, a clergyman of the Diocese of Kamenets-Podolsky of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Rector of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Skipche in Gorodok District of Khmelnitsky Region, by... Read more...