Andrey Gurov Priest Biography

The main one »Our publications stupid to the Lord Hieromonk Andrei Gurov Sergey Anatolyevich, the inhabitant of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the village of Kimlyai Kovylkinsky district on July 28, we prayerfully remember the hieromonk Andrei Gurov on his earthly death and pray for the salvation of his immortal soul. Andrei’s father did not become on June 19, almost a week before his summer anniversary.

Hieromonk Andrei in the world - Sergey Anatolyevich Gurov was born on June 28 in the city of Bor Gorky now - the Nizhny Novgorod region in the family of employees. He studied at secondary school in the year entered the Gorky Pedagogical Institute at the biological and geographical faculty, which he graduated from the year. After the release, he was distributed to the Palace of Sports “Quartz” of the city of Bor, where he worked as a head teacher for educational work.

Having worked in this field up to a year, in the same year he entered the Borsky glass plant as a wizard in cutting and packaging glasses. At the same time, from a year, he began to serve as an altar in the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In the year, the father and mother of Sergei Gurov tragically die in a car disaster, and he remains an orphan, without even close relatives.

But the Lord does not leave his future minister. In the year of Sergey, the future father of Andrei, they are transferred to the post of senior master in the workshop production workshop. But despite the high position and difficult work, he spends all his free time from work on the restoration of the Tikhvin Mother of God Assumption Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, where he traveled as possible.

Already in the year in this monastery, Sergei Gurov accepts a small schema - tonsure in monasticism. In the monastery, he carried obedience in the bakery, taught the Law of God in a Sunday school, and also obedience to restore the power supply of the monastery. Now it is already unknown why it was a reason or for some blessing, but it so happened that in the same year he came to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the Mordovian Kimlyai at the same year.

Arriving at the monastery, he soon accepted tonsure in monasticism with the name Andrei. Father Andrei Gurov was one of the first inhabitants in the Kimlyan monastery, since the monastery itself was opened in the year, and from a year the monastery life began to emerge in it. He tonsured him by a perishable archimandrite Serafim Novakovsky-the rector of the Alexander Nevsky Kimlyai Monastery, very soon the monk Andrei was ordained a hierodeacon.

His deacon chirotonium took place on December 26, and the ordination in Hieromonk - January 1 of the year. A year later, in M, he received a church hierarchical award - a naughty. To the best of his strength, Hieromonk Andrei Gurov helped the restoration of a destroyed monastery. The priest worked both on various general obedience of the distant rural monastery, and carried a series of priestly ministry.

Father Andrei was remembered by the brotherhood and parishioners as responsive and kind to everyone and in everything. As the brethren of the monastery says: not just responsive and kind, but a priest was very responsive and very kind. In recent years, the priest has carried the cross of bodily suffering. For the past two years, due to sick legs, he could no longer perform worship, but hesitated obedience to serve as feasible works for the glory of God.

About a year ago, Father Andrei suffered a stroke. And now, after a short serious illness, Father Andrei peacefully went to the Lord. A month before his earthly death, he found cancer of internal organs. Eternal and bright memory!