Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon noted in his address “advanced” scoffers from the media
Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea moved to Crimea for health reasons and for better control over the construction of the new historical and archaeological park “Chersonese Tauride” in Sevastopol.
The decision to appoint Tikhon to “Crimean exile” was made personally by Patriarch Kirill, and the meme itself was born from words taken out of context, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At a press conference, Metropolitan Tikhon said that he learned about his appointment a day before the decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church from a telephone conversation with the patriarch. And at the beginning I did not understand that we were talking about service, and not treatment, since the primate was interested in the state of health. But he accepted the assignment to Crimea as expected - with humility and fortitude.
“Firstly, it’s really nice that His Holiness took care of his health, and secondly, this is the oldest diocese of the Russian Church, there is no more ancient one. The first monastery here was from the XNUMXst century AD. Then it was not yet a monastery, but there was a throne on which the Divine Liturgy was served in Inkerman.
I often visited Crimea due to the fact that I have an assignment... both church and as a member of the presidium of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art - to supervise, plan and design a large museum, educational and educational complex in Chersonesos. And now we are almost finishing it. Therefore, I periodically came to Crimea, and I came here with joy - and with great hopes. And, of course, it’s impossible not to love Crimea. This is one of the most beautiful places in our country, and therefore in the entire Universe,” the Metropolitan is convinced.
The widely circulated phrase that he perceives his assignment to Crimea as an exile, according to Tikhon, is taken out of context.
“I said goodbye to the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery. There were brothers, parishioners, for a long time I said thanks for the years together, about how I would miss them, and I see the grannies crying, I didn’t want to leave on this note and said: what do you think, am I going to a resort? am I going? Crimea is a resort for us, but in Byzantium it was an exile, Kolyma, Pope Clement, Martin the Confessor, and Joseph the Song Singer were exiled there. More exile was in Sukhumi, where there were swamps. But Chersonesos was a place of exile in Byzantium.
Everyone laughed, everyone understood that this was a joke, and when particularly advanced journalists took it out of context, what happened was what happened,” the Metropolitan explained.
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