Monday, March 7, 2016

New Representative of the Archbishop in Belarus

Grodno
On January 26 ELC Archbishop Dietrich Brauer named Pastor Vladimir Tatarnikov as his official representative in the Republic of Belarus "in order to unify and develop the Lutheran congregations of Belarus," as it written in the official document confirming this decision.
Pastor Tatarnikov has the right to right to speak in the name of the Archbishop and to represent the church's interest at ecumenical and government meetings in Belarus.
The congregations in Belarus became a part of ELCROS in 1998. In 2009 an agreement was signedby the ELC Archbishop   and the autonomous congregations of Belarus regarding the spiritual unity of the church and about care for the congregations from the side of the ELC of Russia.
Pastor Vladimir Tatarnikov was born on April 3, 1986 in Vileyka in the Minsk region of Belarus. He finished school in 2004 in Vitebsk and entered the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Novosaratovka.
He finished his education there in 2009, and was ordained on April 12th by then Archbishop Edmund Ratz and has since that time been serving as pastor for the congregations in Grodno and Vitebsk.

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