The residence of the Metropolitan of Omsk and the Tauride Vladimir will be commissioned in the near future. The Bishop will arrive at a huge two-story mansion in the center of Omsk.
The residence erected near Holy cross Cathedral on the street of Tara. The Metropolitan was no place to live after moving Into a two-storey mansion dwell, Metropolitan of Omsk and Tauride Vladimir, who before had no place to live after moving from Uzbekistan.
The local diocese has requested the transfer of the land plot under the building zone that can accommodate religious objects, writes “the New Omsk”. Public hearings were a success for the Church.
“Built residence of the ruling Bishop. Since the Metropolitan came here, and he had no where to live, he now temporarily resides in a monastery in the criminal world, — said Archpriest Mikhail Vivchar. — We had owned the land previously and there was religious school. Then, when we were presented with a building on Lermontov, 56, the school moved there, and this place on the land was built the residence of the ruling Bishop, that is, Bishop’s house — a place for permanent residence of spiritual persons”.
The publication notes that next to Holy cross Cathedral of the company “Agrotrust” the Deputy of legislative Assembly Yury Kosubaev wanted to build a high-rise apartment complexes, but went bankrupt, and the land plots together with houses to be demolished departed diocese.
Metropolitan Volodymyr in the world — Vasily Ikim. He was born in 1940 in Moldavia. After serving in the armed forces of the USSR graduated from the Odessa theological Seminary and consorting with the Church. Received the rank of Metropolitan in 2002.
