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'''Anthony of Sourozh''' (((lang-ru|Митрополит Антоний Сурожский)), [[secular name]] '''Andrei Borisovich Bloom''', ((lang-ru|Андрей Борисович Блум)) and commonly known as '''Anthony Bloom'''; 19 June 1914 &ndash; 4 August 2003) was best known as a writer and broadcaster on prayer and the Christian life. He was a monk and [[bishop]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. He was founder and for many years bishop - then [[archbishop]], then [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] - of the [[Diocese of Sourozh]], the [[Patriarchate of Moscow]]'s diocese for Great Britain and Ireland (the name 'Sourozh' is that of the historical [[episcopal see]] in [[Sudak]] in [[Crimean Peninsula|Crimea]]). As a bishop he became well known as a pastor, preacher, spiritual director and writer on prayer and the Christian life.
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==Early life==
Andrei Bloom was born on 19 June 1914, in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, to Xenia and Boris Edvardovich Bloom. His mother was the half sister of the composer [[Alexander Scriabin]].((Citation needed|date=July 2011))

He spent his early childhood in Russia and Iran. During the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]] the family had to leave Iran, and by 1923 they were settled in Paris, where he was educated. He graduated in physics, chemistry and biology, and took his doctorate in medicine at the [[University of Paris]].((Citation needed|date=July 2011))

By his own words, he met Christ, when he was a teenager:
<blockquote>
"I met Christ as a Person at a moment when I needed him in order to live, and at a moment when I was not in search of him. I was found; I did not find him".

"I was a teenager then. Life had been difficult in the early years and now it had of a sudden become easier. All the years when life had been hard I had found it natural, if not easy, to fight; but when life became easy and happy I was faced quite unexpectedly with a problem: I could not accept aimless happiness. Hardships and suffering had to be overcome, there was something beyond them. Happiness seemed to be stale if it had no further meaning".

"As it often happens when you are young and when you act with passion, bent to possess either everything or nothing, I decided that I would give myself a year to see whether life had a meaning, and if I discovered it had none I would not live beyond the year..."--<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041204154617/http://www.metropolit-anthony.orc.ru/eng/ Web-site, dedicated to Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh] Retrieved archived version 2018.02.03</ref>

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==Career==
In 1939, before leaving for the front as a surgeon in the [[French Army]], he secretly professed [[Monasticism|monastic]] vows in the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. In 1943 he was [[tonsure]]d and received the name of Antony. During the occupation of France by [[Nazi Germany]] he worked as a doctor, and took part in the [[French Resistance]].<ref>Anthony Bloom, ''Beginning to Pray'', page 6.</ref>

After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the presbyterate and sent to Britain to serve as Orthodox Christian [[chaplain]] of the [[Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius]], a society established to foster understanding and friendship between the Russian Orthodox and Anglican churches. In 1950 he was appointed vicar of the [[Parish of the Dormition, London|Russian Patriarchal parish]] in London.

In 1957 he was consecrated as bishop, and as archbishop in 1962 in charge of the [[Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh]].

In 1963 he was appointed [[exarch]] of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe, and in 1966 was assigned the rank of [[metropolitan bishop]].

In 1974 by mutual agreement he was released from the function of exarch, in order to devote himself more fully to the pastoral needs of the growing flock of his diocese.((Citation needed|date=July 2011)) Between 1966 and 1986 he brought out six books on prayer.

In mid 2003, Bloom resigned as diocesan bishop. He died on 4 August 2003. His grave in the [[Brompton Cemetery]], London, is visited by Christians and many others.((Citation needed|date=July 2011))

==Honours==
Bloom received honorary doctorates from the [[University of Aberdeen]] ("for preaching the Word of God and renewing the spiritual life of this country"); from the [[Moscow Theological Academy]] for his theological, pastoral and preaching work; from the [[University of Cambridge]]; and from the [[Kiev Theological Academy]].<ref>((Cite thesis|last=Roman|first=Rytsar|date=2012-01-01|title=The Kenotic Theology of Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh (1914–2003), in Anthropological Perspective|url=http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/22756|language=en|doi=10.20381/ruor-797|publisher=Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University|type=Thesis))</ref>

==Writings==
His books were published in English in Britain. His texts were subsequently widely published in Russia as books and in periodicals.
*''Note: dates are for British editions.''
;Publications 
*1966 &ndash; ''Living Prayer''
*1970 &ndash; ''School for Prayer''
*1970 &ndash; ''Beginning to Pray'' (re-publishing of ''School for Prayer'')
*1971 &ndash; ''God and man''
*1972 &ndash; ''Meditations on a Theme: a spiritual journey''
*1973 &ndash; ''Courage to Pray''
*1986 &ndash; ''The Essence of Prayer'' (Contains ''Living Prayer'', ''School for Prayer'', ''God and Man'', and ''Courage to Pray'')

;Posthumously published works
*2005 &ndash; ''Encounter''
*2007 &ndash; ''The Living Body of Christ''
*2009 &ndash; ''Coming Closer to Christ: on Confession''
*2017 &ndash; ''Churchianity vs. Christianity''

==Posthumous works==
[[File:Brompton Cemetery, London 18.JPG|thumb|Anthony of Sourozh's funerary monument, [[Brompton Cemetery]], London]]
[[File:Brompton Cemetery, London 19.JPG|thumb|Detail]]((Unreferenced section|date=April 2020))
The Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Foundation is a body of independent trustees who collect together and publish his writings. As of July 2011, the foundation undertakes this by managing the copyrights in his works and by commissioning new selections and approved translations.

The foundation is also establishing the official archive of Bloom's papers and writings, together with related materials such as recordings of talks, broadcasts and sermons.

The foundation is the legal owner of the worldwide copyrights and other intellectual property rights in Bloom's works. Its charity registered number is 1120395 and the chairman of the trustees is Protodeacon Peter Scorer.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* G. Crow, ''This Holy Man: Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony'' (2005).

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140516190750/http://masf.org.uk/ The Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Foundation] (old website)
*[http://www.mitras.ru/eng/ The Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Foundation] (new website)
*[http://www.sourozh.org/ Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh]
*[http://www.exarchate.org.uk The Deanery of Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Great Britain and Ireland]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041204154617/http://www.metropolit-anthony.orc.ru/eng/ Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh] (English)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041204102113/http://sourozh.org/memorial/funeral.htm Funeral of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh]
*[http://www.masarchive.org/ Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Archive: Photos, Video, Audio, and Texts]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/06/guardianobituaries.russia Obituary in ''The Guardian'']

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