Ture Orthodox Church in Chernihiv land and the Abbot Alipii (Yakovenko)
The purpose of the article is to objectively cover biographical data on the life and activities of the Chernihiv abbot Alipii (Oleksandr A, Yakovenko) through the prism of his affiliation with the True Orthodox Church (TOC). Research methodology is based on anthropological approach and biographical method. Scientific novelty. On the basis of the evidence collected by the author, the biography of Abbot Alipii was reconstructed in view of his involvement in the existence of the TOC on the territory of Chernihiv region. Conclusions. Abbot Alipii was one of the most influential adherents of the Orthodox faith during the coming of Soviet administration and anti-church politics. In October 1927, "for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda," and, in fact, for not recognizing the "Declaration of the Church's loyalty to Soviet power" and actively resisting its introduction into church life, Abbot Alipii was arrested and sent to the Kharkiv GPU for four months. According to the testimony of pr. Alipii, in the Kharkiv prison, he was required to sign the Declaration. Unfortunately, the case of 1927 has not yet been found, so we can only rely on eyewitness statements and the case of 1930, which also mentions the arrest of 1927. Imprisonment strengthened pr. Alipii is convinced that the Soviet power despises not only Christian but also human moral norms, and that loyalty to such power in the form required by the Church of Sergiy Stragorodskiy is unacceptable to the conscience of the Orthodox Christian. Since then, he has become one of the convinced ideologues of the TOC in Chernihiv. In 1936, when a large trial was launched in Chernihiv and all priests and monks belonging to the CPI were arrested, Fr. Alipiy secretly moved to Chernihiv, because it was necessary to head a truly orphaned congregation. He organized a secret monastery on the Upper Liskovytsia, where he performed a divine liturgy daily in the catacomb temple. With the occupation of Ukraine by Germany in 1941 Alipius left the catacombs and went to his temple in the ...