Anthony Sevryuk

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Rank	Metropolitan
Personal details
Born	Anton Yuryevich Sevryuk (1984-10-12) October 12, 1984 (age 39) Tver, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Anthony (

Sevryuk was baptised at the age of 11.[1] From 1991 to 1995 he studied at Secondary School Number 19 in his home city of Tver. In 1995, he entered the Tver Lyceum.^[2]

In his youth, Sevryuk volunteered as an altar server at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Tver.^[1]

Academic studies

In 2002 he entered the

On 5 March 2009 in Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius he was tonsured a rasophore monk by newly-enthroned Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.^[3]

On 7 October 2015 in same place he was tonsured mantle monk (little schema) by Kirill, this time with the name of Anthony, after Anthony of Rome.^[2]

In Italy

From 22 March to 30 May 2011, he served as the leading clergyman of the parish of St. Nicholas Stavropegic in

During his time in Rome, Anthony said that he felt rather lonely as for the first time in his life he was living for a prolonged period of time in a place where Russian Orthodox made a small percentage of the population. Before and during his time in Rome the Orthodox community in Italy had grown to over 50 parishes, mostly due to immigration to Italy from Orthodox populations in Eastern Europe and to a lesser extent by converts.^[1] During the same time the Romanian Orthodox community in Italy grew to 163 parishes. Despite feeling uneasy at times, Anthony said that there are many similarities between Italians and Russians in tradition and customs, so the transition to being a pastor in Italy was not hard culturally.^[1]

Metropolitan of Chersonesus and Western Europe

On 30 May 2019, Anthony succeeded

Having spent most of his pastoral career in predominantly Roman Catholic areas, Anthony has stated that it is important for the two churches to have good relations, especially in sites where both Orthodox and Catholic faithful worship.[1] At the Roman Catholic Basilica di San Nicola, a shrine to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari, he would lead Divine Liturgy on Thursdays. He has thanked the Catholic Church in Italy for its tolerant view of the Orthodox population there, and for occasionally allowing Orthodox to pray in Catholic shrines dedicated to saints that both churches venerate. He did however say it is important that Orthodox worshippers do not pray together with Catholics or attend Mass, as the two churches are not in full communion with one another, and still have theological differences.^[1]

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