"THE TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF REVELATION ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN": RELIGIOUS "EXPERIENCES" OF THE FORMER PRIEST KONSTANTIN VASILIEV

Pavel V. Bochkov

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, The rector of the church of St. Bows of the Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Russia

Email: frpavel@inbox.ru

ORCID: 0000-0002-3218-6706

Issue: № 4 (20), 2022

Pages: 69

Annotation

The article examines the history of the former cleric of the Moscow Regional Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Priest Konstantin Vasiliev. Having deviated into a schism and created another non-canonical group, Vasiliev has consistently gone from a schismatic to a sectarian, and has now retired from active religious activity. The example of the activity of Vasiliev and his followers vividly characterizes the disciplinary-psychological group of church schisms of modern times, often teetering on the verge of mystical sectarianism with obvious signs of mental disorder.

Keywords

Konstantin (Lazarus) Vasiliev, John (Bereslavsky), "The True Orthodox Church of the Revelation of John the Theologian", "The Theotokos Center", church schism, non-canonical Orthodoxy

For citation

Bochkov P. V., priest. «The True Orthodox Church of the Revelation of John the Theologian»: religious «experiences» of the former priest Konstantin Vasiliev // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2022. № 4. Р. 69–83 (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2022–4–69–83