Archbishop Anthony (Moskalenko) Reposed in the Lord

April 23, 2025. The city of Uralsk. Archbishop Anthony (Moskalenko), who was retired, reposed in the Lord in his 85th year.

The Head of the Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan, Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, served a memorial Lity for the newly-departed Archbishop in the Home Church of the Iveron-Seraфim Convent at his residence in Almaty.

Archbishop Anthony (in the world – Vladimir Ivanovich Moskalenko) was born on September 29, 1940, in the city of Khabarovsk into a working-class family.

Beginning in 1964, he fulfilled the obedience of subdeacon under Archbishop Benjamin (Novitsky) of Irkutsk.

From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Faculty of Law at Irkutsk University, and in 1973 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Krasnoyarsk State University.

On September 27, 1969, he was ordained to the diaconate in Novosibirsk, and on October 12 to the priesthood by Archbishop Paul (Golyshev) of Novosibirsk and Barnaul.

He served in parishes in the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk.

On April 13, 1970, he was tonsured a monk.

From 1970 to 1973, he studied in absentia at the Moscow Theological Seminary, and in 1977 he graduated in absentia from the Moscow Theological Academy.

Beginning in 1981, he served in the Khmelnytsky Diocese, at a parish in the city of Dunaivtsi.

On October 12, 1984, he was appointed rector of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv and Chancellor of the Ukrainian Exarchate.

On October 6, 1985, by decision of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Rus’ and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was elected bishop.

On October 13, 1985, in the Vladimir Cathedral of Kyiv, he was consecrated Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, Vicar of the Kyiv Diocese, by a multitude of hierarchs.

On December 30, 1986, he was appointed to the Chernivtsi and Bukovina see.

On January 30, 1991, he was appointed ruling hierarch of the newly established Diocese of Uralsk and Guryev.

On February 25, 1997, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus’ On October 4, 2012, at a regular session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the title of the ruling hierarch of the Uralsk Diocese of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District was changed. The Synod resolved that the diocesan hierarch should bear the title “Uralsk and Aktobe.”

From December 15, 2012, he served as Chairman of the Audit Commission of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church.

From March 24, 2022, he held the title “Uralsk and Atyrau.”

By decision of the Holy Synod on May 27, 2022 (Journal No. 42), he was retired. His place of residence was designated as the city of Uralsk.