Sergey Zhuravlev

Sergey Zhuravlev, the archbishop of the Ukrainian Reformed Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior (UROC CS) and the Russian Orthodox Reformed Church, was born May 14th, 1969 in the city of Cheboxar, the capital of Chuvashia [one of the republics in the Russian Federation]. He was brought to repentance in a miraculous way and turned to God in 1982. In 1988 he began his service in the traditional Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) as a cantor and sexton in the Orel-Bryansk diocese. In 1991, after brief service as a deacon, he was appointed to the priesthood and served first as the regular cleric of Ryazan, and then as the head of the Bryansk diocese of the ROC. The appointments to deaconship and priesthood were both performed by the Honorable Simon, the archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov who, beginning in 1991, serves as dean of the Orthodox churches of the Ryazan and Bryansk regions. In 1996, as dean of the Church of St. Basil in the Bryansk region, Father Sergei was drawn back to the Word of God and experienc