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Biography

Born July 29, 1969 in Leningrad into a family of employees. In 1976-84 studied at high school № 79 in the Kalininsky district of Leningrad.

In 1984-92 studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Mechanics and Control Processes. After that he was accepted as a graduate student at the same department and in 1995 defended his PhD thesis and received the degree of a Candidate of Technical Sciences.

From 1995-98 he was a student at the St Petersburg Theological Seminary; from 1998-2002 he was a student at the St Petersburg Theological Academy. - He graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Academy.

On March 26th, 1999, during his first year at St. Petersburg Seminary, Vladyka was tonsured into the monastic veil in the St. Petersburg Cardinal's Cathedral. He was ordained a hierodeacon on August 28, 1999 and ordained a, hieromonk on June 3, 2002. He completed his studies at St. Petersburg Academy of Archbishoprics and received a PhD on "Senior Ministry in the teaching and life of the Church".

From 2002-11. - Lecturer at St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance. From December 2004 to June 2011 served as Dean of the Faculty of International Students. Supervised graduate theses and PhD theses written by seminary students at the academy. Also, he provided pastoral care for parishioners, students and pupils of St. Petersburg State University of Archaeology and Ethics.

Since 2008, he was spiritual director of the voluntary movement "Children's Mission", which was born in the walls of the Theological Academy. Teachers and students of SPbDA organised spiritual and educational work with children in orphanages and other orphanages in the St. Petersburg Metropolis.

In the autumn of 2011 he was released from the position of teacher at St. Petersburg Academy of Education and Science and was appointed to the staff of the Church of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Vyritsa village, Leningrad region.

In 2011-14. - Doctoral student at the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies. The topic of his doctoral dissertation is "The doctrine of matter in sacramental and anthropological aspects in the works of the theologians of the Alexandrian School, the Great Cappadocians and St. Maxim Confessor".

12 July 2015. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presented, hieromonk Kirill with the Doctoral Cross.

In 2016-20, he taught the author's course in Christian anthropology for undergraduate students of the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (RCHA).

By the decision of the Holy Synod of July 16-17, 2020 (Journal No. 41) he was appointed Rector of the Nikolo-Ugreshskaya Theological Seminary.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of 23-24 September 2021 (journal no. 89) he was appointed Vicar of the Stavropegial Monastery in Nikolo-Ugresh.

On 18 July 2022 he was elevated to the rank of hegumen and given the hegumen's baton by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill during the Liturgy at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

By the Holy Synod's decision of 25 August 2022 (journal no. 68) he was appointed Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, relieving him of his duties as Rector of the Nikolo-Ugresh Theological Seminary and Vicar of the Nikolo-Ugresh Stavropigial Monastery; he was elected Vicar of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, bearing the title "Zvenigorodsky" (journal no 69).

Since August 25, 2022 he has been a member of the Synodal Commission for the canonization of saints (ex-officio).

On 30 August 2022 he was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite by Metropolitan Dionisy of Voskresensk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, in Novospassky Stauropegial Monastery in Moscow.

Ordained bishop on 20 September 2022 in the throne room of Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. He was consecrated on September 21 during the Divine Liturgy at Zachatievsky Stavropigial Monastery in Moscow. Services were presided over by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill.

Since August 25, 2022, he has been a member of the Synodal Commission for the canonization of saints (ex officio).

Education:

• 1992 - Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (Candidate of Technical Sciences).
• 1998 - St. Petersburg Theological Seminary.
• 2002 - St. Petersburg Theological Academy.
• 2014 г. - All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies.

Diocese: Moscow diocese (city diocese).

(Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia).

Scientific works, publications:

1. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Eucharistic terminology and the theory of transubstantiation. 2008, № 28, с. 58-75.
2. Cirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Anthropology of St. Gregory of Nyssa: Overcoming Origenism // Vestnik of Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary. 2015, № 1 (9), с. 38-58.
3. Cirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Great Fathers of the Church on Matter and the Body of Man (The Alexandrian and Cappadocian Schools). - St. Petersburg: Oleg Abyshko Publishing House, 2014. - 512 с.
4. Cyril (Zinkovsky) Hierom. Faith in God - Faith in Man: Conceptions of Matter and Human Body in the Alexandrian Theological Tradition (Pre-Nicaean Period). - St. Petersburg: RCHA, 2014. - 239 с.
5. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Volitional qualities of personality according to St. Theophan the Recluse // Bulletin of the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. 2017, vol. 2, pp. 54-68.
6. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Liturgical Contemplations: the Experience of Saints Nicholas Kavasila and John of Kronstadt // Proceedings of the Sixth Pyukhtitsa Readings International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Secular and Spiritual Cultural Heritage as a Values Basis for the Formation of a Contemporary Person', Pyukhtitsa Assumption Stavropigial Women's Monastery, 10-12 December 2017. Pühtitsa, 2018, pp. 42-52.
7. Cyril (Zinkovsky) Hierom. Between God and the World (The Teaching of the Venerable Maximus the Confessor on the Nature of the Soul) // Metaparadigm: Theology, Philosophy, Natural Science. Almanac. 2014, vol. 4, с. 22-34.
8. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Some Aspects of Christian Ascesis in the Age of Information Wars // Proceedings of the X International Scientific Theological Conference "Topical Issues of Modern Theology and Church Science" September 24-26, 2018. - St. Petersburg, 2018.
9. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. On the experience of 'walking before the face of God' // Parishioner. Orthodox Internet journal (online edition).
10. Cyril (Zinkovsky) hierom. Ontological Status of Matter and Flesh in the Works of St. Basil the Great. Series: New Humanities Studies. 2014, № 2 (37), с. 121-124.
11. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Ontology of Matter and Body in St. Athanasius the Great // Metaparadigm: Theology, Philosophy, and Natural Science. Almanac. 2014, vol. 5, pp. 42-72.
12. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Concepts of Matter and the Human Body in the Epistles of St Ignatius of Antioch // Acta eruditorum. 2012, vol. 11, p. 3-9.
13. Cyril (Zinkovsky), Hierom. The Legacy of St. Seraphim of Sarov as a Modern Factor of National Security, Native Ladoga. 2012. № 3 (21). С. 192-202.
14. Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Spiritual Dimension of the Person of Emperor Nicholas II: Meaning for the Fate of the Fatherland, To the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov. Monarchies and dynasties in history of Europe and Russia. In 2 parts / Compiled by D. I. Weber. D. I. Weber. SPb.: SPbSU. publishing house Scythia-Print, 2013. Ч. 1. С. 297-299.
15. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Notions of Matter and Human Body in the Works of Athenagoras // Philosophical Anticology and the Classical Tradition. (Novosibirsk, NSU). 2013. Т. 7. Vol. 2, с. 272-289.
16. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Concepts of Matter and the Human Body in the Works of St. Gregory of Nyssa // Man. 2014, № 6, с. 135-147.
17. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Origen's conceptions of the etheric character of the resurrected bodies in the context of the Church's teaching on the resurrection of the flesh // Church and Time. 2013, № 65, с. 184-214.
18. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Sacramental-anthropological aspect of the doctrine of matter in the Areopagitics // Church and Time. 2015, № 1 (70), с. 8-106.
19. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Quality of Material Changes in the Natural Elements and in the Holy Gifts // VIII International Correspondence Scientific Conference "Scientific Discussion: Issues of Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, History" (Moscow, 17 January 2013). Moscow, 2013, pp. 106-120.
20. Cyril (Zinkovsky), Hierom. Svyatotecheskoe doctrine on flesh and matter and modern biomedical technologies // Vestnik of Russian Christian Academy of Humanities. 2018, № 4, с. 180-187.
21. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Creativity in Spirit and Matter in the Perspective of Theology of Education // Vestnik of the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. 2015, vol. 3, pp. 18-28.
22. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The term 'φυσις' in ancient Greek philosophy, Holy Scripture and the works of pre-Nicaean church writers // Vestnik of the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. 2011, p. 3, p. 75-88.
23. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Clement of Alexandria's Doctrine on Matter: A Review of the Literature and Setting the Task // Proceedings of the Pereretva Orthodox Theological Seminary. 2013, № 7, с. 92-109.
24. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of Clement of Alexandria on matter, the body of Christ and the body of man // Proceedings of the Pererwena Orthodox Theological Seminary. 2013, № 8, с. 82-117.
25. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Plato's doctrine of matter. Is it the basis of Christian speculation? // Vestnik of Moscow State University. Philosophical Sciences Series. 2014, № 2, с. 94-102.
26. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of St. Maximus the Confessor on the Eucharist // Church and Time. 2015, № 2 (71), с. 116-128.
27. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of St. Cyril of Alexandria on the matter of the cosmos and human flesh // Vestnik of the Russian Christian Academy of Humanities. 2014, № 2, с. 29-37.
28. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of St. Cyril of Alexandria and St. Maximus the Confessor on the Life-Giving Body of Christ // Church and Time. 2014, № 66, с. 29-54.
29. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of St. Cyril of Jerusalem on the material world and its sanctification // Church and Time. 2013, № 1 (62), с. 88-104.
30. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of St. John of Kronstadt on the Eucharist // Church and Time. 2012, № 2 (59), c. 133-144.
31. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Christian Axioms of the Theology of Education // Theology and Education. In: Kirill (Zinkovsky) // Theology and Education. St. Petersburg: RCHA Publishing House, 2017, pp. 34-67.
32. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Christian realism versus chiliastic utopianism (article) Our Cause is Right: Countries and Leaders in Sociocultural and Philosophical-Historical Dimensions. Collection of articles for the 70th anniversary of Victory. St. Petersburg: RCHA Publishing, 2015. С. 385-400.
33. . Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Doctrine of the material world and its sanctification according to St. Cyril of Jerusalem // Science, Technology and Higher Education: Materials of the international research and practice conference (Canada, Westwood, 11-12 December, 2012). Westwood: PUBL, 2012. P. 601-607.
34. Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Sacramental and Anthropological Aspect of the Doctrine of Matter in the Corpus Areopagiticum // European Applied Studies: modern approaches in scientific researches, 2nd International scientific conference. Stuttgart: ORT Publishing, 2013, p. 225-233.
35. Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Saint Gregory of Nyssa on the character of changes of physical elements in nature and in the holy Eucharistic Gifts // The Beauty of God's Presence in the Fathers of the Church / J. E. Rutherford (ed.). Proceedings of the Patristic Symposium Conference (Maynooth, 10-13 October, 2012). Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, p. 150-160.

Co-authored by:

1. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Historical and Eucharistic Body of Christ in the Soteriology of St. Simeon the New Theologian // Proceedings of the Second International Patristic Conference of the St. Cyril and Methodius All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral School "The Venerable Simeon the New Theologian and His Spiritual Legacy". Moscow, 11-13 December. 2014. Moscow: Poznaniye, 2017, pp. 232-252.
2. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Hierotheistic interpretations of the words of Christ: 'If you ask anything of the Father in my name, I will do it' (John 14:13) // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference Seventh Pyukhtitsa Readings 'Spiritual and Moral Education of Man: Traditions and Modernity', Pyukhtitsa Assumption Stavropigial Nunnery, December 11-12, 2018. Pyukhtitsa, 2018, pp. 30-36.
3. Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Varnava (Snytko), hieromonk. Archimandrite Sofrony (Sakharov) on the heresy of Constantinople neo-papism in the light of Orthodox triadology // http://pravoslavie.ru/117860.html.
4. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The term ενυπόστατον: historical meaning and use in contemporary theology // Church and Time. 2014, № 2 (67), с. 51-85.
5. Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Ambartsumov F.N. Doctrine of St. John Chrysostom on the Eucharist (Internet edition).
6. Legeev Michael Sr., Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The theological understanding of history by the apostolic and apologetic men: from the Holy Trinity to man // Christian Reading. 2018, № 1, с. 34-45.
7. Legeev Michael Sr., Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Way of the Church: Ascesis, Sacraments, and Catholic Completeness // Christian Reading. 2017, № 2, с. 57-80.
8. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Theology of Human Person and Nature and Perspectives of Theological Anthropology // Bulletin of the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. 2018. Т. 21. Vol. 2.
9. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Theological aspects of the phenomenon of addiction // Proceedings of the IV Interregional Conference "Modern views on addiction to psychoactive substances: at the interface of theology and psychology" December 26, 2017. Diocesan Office. Coordination Centre for Combating Drug Addiction and Alcoholism at the UCBSS. St. Petersburg, 2018.
10. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Byzantine city monasteries: peculiarities of their way of life and significance for modern monasticism // Proceedings of the conference "Peculiarities of the arrangement of monastic life in city monasteries". Saint Petersburg, 8-9 August 2017. - St. Petersburg, 2018.
11. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Hierarchical Anthropology of St. Maxim Confessor // Church and Time. 2013, № 3 (64), с. 59-83.
12. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The term "ενυπόστατον" and its theological meaning // Paper at the XVI International Conference of Patristic Studies (Oxford, 8-13 August 2011) (online edition).
13. Methodius (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Cyril (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The term ενυπόστατον: historical meaning and use in contemporary theology // Church and Time. 2014, № 2 (67), с. 51-85.
14. Mefodiy (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Barazenko K.V. Dogmas of faith and higher nervous activity // Vestnik psychoterapii. 2017, № 63 (68), c. 95-112.
15. Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk, Methody (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. Spiritual Guidance in Mount Athos and Russia and the Theological Notion of Person // Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos (UK, Cambridge, Madingley Hall, 8-10 March, 2013) / Ed. G. Speake, metr. Kallistos Ware. Bern: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers, 2015, p. 43-68.
16. Methody (Zinkovsky), hieromonk; Kirill (Zinkovsky), hieromonk. The Term ενυποστατον and its Theological Meaning // Studia Patristica LXIII. Peeters Publishers, 2013. V. 11. P. 311-325.

Awards:

Church:

2014 г. - Medal of St. Sergius of Radonezh;

2015 г. - Medal of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir;

2020 г. - Patriarchal diploma.

Secular:

2015 г. - Diploma of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Armenia "For significant contribution to strengthening international cooperation".