Agafangel biography

His father, Tikhon Nikitich, worked at the factory by a specialist in woodworking, mother - Anastasia Emelyanovna worked for hiring and engaged in households. The family was pious and believer, despite the Bogobor time of the baby baptized. The family had two more sisters. As a teenager during World War II, he worked as a locksmith at the Voloshnevskaya machine-tractor station.

Under German occupation, he helped the partisans, collected information for them about the positions of the enemy. From the year he participated in hostilities as part of the first Ukrainian front. After the war, he graduated from the Glinsky Industrial College, then the All-Union Engineering Institute in Moscow, worked in Voronezh. He was transferred to Riga in the year. He worked first in the chemical industry, then in the management of the Baltic railway.

He retired in the year. Despite the fact that he was brought up by a believing mother, his conscious path to faith and God began in adulthood. In years, he became a mortgage under the Metropolitan of Riga and Latvian Leonid Polyakov - in the year the second degree of initiation into monasticism named Ambrose was tonsured in the mantle, in the same year it becomes hierodeacon, a little later Hieromonk.

From the year he served in the Annunciation Temple of Riga. In January, he was appointed rector of the Riga Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ. In addition, from November to July, the rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in Tukums. In the year, he was elevated to the rank of abbot, and in the year he was awarded the right to wear a cross with jewelry. He began to revive the convent that existed here earlier.

As a participant in the war, he had many state differences. In the year, the third degree of initiation with the name Agafangel was tonsured in the Great Schima, became the first schematic of the revived Holy Dukhov monastery in Yekabpils. Since that time, he fulfilled the obedience of the confessor of the Yekabpilsa Monastery and the clergy of the Daugavpilsk-Chista diocese of the Latvian Orthodox Church.

In the year, he was erected to San Schiarchimandrite.

He possessed the gift of prayer and disinterested love for people. Despite the numerous ailments, which overcome in old age, to the last served the Church and people, never discouraged, did not complain about sorrow and illness. In his little house, the monastery cell, on August 15, the priest in prayer and went to the Lord. Before the beginning of the funeral service, the Eminent Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia Alexander Kudryashov made lithium.

According to the monastic rank, the funeral itself was committed by Bishop Alexander Matryonin, Bishop of Daugavpils and Reseknensky. School Archimandrite Agafangel in the monastery sector of the cemetery in Ilukst was rested. The text was prepared by Sergey Tsoi 1 Lebedeva N. Related topics.