Laurus, Metropolitan

Laurus, Metropolitan
▪ 2009
Vassily Mikhailovich Skurla 
      Czech religious leader

born Jan. 1, 1928, Ladomirovo, Czechoslovakia [now in Slovakia]

died March 16, 2008, Jordanville, N.Y.
was instrumental in reconciling the 80-year dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and its parent church in Russia; the separation occurred in 1927 when Moscow Patriarch Sergey proclaimed allegiance to the Communist Party. Laurus joined a monastery at about age 10, and he arrived in 1946 in Jordanville with other monks after fleeing advancing Soviet troops. He was ordained a priest in 1954 and consecrated bishop of Manhattan in 1967 and bishop of Syracuse, N.Y., in 1976. In 2001 the Synod of Bishops elected Laurus metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. In 2007, in a gesture of peace, Laurus exchanged kisses with Alexis II, the patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, at a historic ceremony at which a reunification pact was signed in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the presence of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. Laurus maintained administrative independence for his 400 parishes outside Russia.

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