Archimandrite Hippolytus Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Ippolit Khalin Ippolit Khalin -, Archimandrite, Rector and Confessor of the Bratity of the Rylsky St. Nicholas Monastery in the world Sergey Ivanovich Khalin, was born on April 18 [1] in the village of Subbotino of the Solntsevsky district of the Kursk region in a large believing peasant family. Both priests and monks were in the Khalins, and his native uncle Michael served as a priest in the church of a neighboring village.

The family had four boys and four girls, Sergius was the youngest. All his brothers died at the front, and a difficult burden of heavy village work fell on him, even a lad. After graduating from 10 classes of high school, he studied at the FZO for the foundry, and then graduated from the pedagogical school. Having served three years in the army, he worked in the world for some time and, at the age of 29, went to the Glinsky deserts in the age of 29.

In the Glinsky desert, he became the spiritual child of Schiarchimandrite Andronik Lukash. In the book "Glinsky deserts and its elders" there is a small story about how the father of Andronik healed with his prayer from the crucial inflammation of the lungs of the novice Sergius Kalin. Sergius lived in the same cell with a young novice Ivan Maslov, who later became a famous old man.

After a single year in the Glinsky desert, in November of the year, the novice Sergius entered the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, where he becomes a cell of the Valaam elder, Jeroschimonakh, Mikhail Pitkevich. Cuts and ordinations were performed by Metropolitan Pskov John Razumov. In the year, he was sent to Athos, a monastery in the Russian Holy Panteleimon, in which a monastic life was impoverished by that time, and there were only about ten inhabitants.

He was among the first five monks who were sent there after the Soviet state allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to send monks to Athos.

The monastery was entered in St. Panteleimon on June 11. Schiarchimandrite Eli Nozdrin, who came to the Holy Mountain ten years after the arrival of Fr. Hippolytus, said: "They, these five monks, simply saved the situation, because there were few Russian inhabitants there, and the monastery could already go to the Greeks. But at first they treated them with distrust, if not to say, hostilely and called them “red priests” there.

On Athos, Father Hippolytus was obedient to the treasurer and the economy. In the year Fr. Hippolytus became very ill and went to be treated to Russia and stayed at home. For some time he served in the rural temples of the Kursk diocese. In October, he headed the fraternity of the reviving Rylsky St. Nicholas Monastery. The monument to Archimandrite Hippolytus of the work of the sculptor V.

Klykov, he created several monastery on the Rylsky land, in which small monastic communities settled. The female monastery in Bolsheneushevo eventually received the status of the monastery in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. With his assistance in North Ossetia, the Alansky Assumption Monastery opened. Severe prayer labors and concerns to restore the monastery undermined the health of the Hippolytian father.

In the last years of his life, he was seriously ill. He died on December 17. The funeral took place on December 19. Many people escorted the priest on the last earthly path. He was buried near the altar for his restored Nikolaev temple - the main cathedral of the monastery. On the grave of Hippolytus’s father, where a bronze cross is installed on a granite pedestal, an unquenchable lamp is burning, fresh flowers are always lying.

On the territory of the Palace-Park ensemble "Maryino", a monument to Archimandrite to Hippolytus was erected and consecrated by the work of a people's artist of Russia, sculptor V. Used materials Savochkin V.