Archimandrite Pachomy is the Abbot of St. Sabbas Monastery. His training began at Oakland University while studying Slavic studies under the tutoring of Mr. Helen Kovach-Tarakanova. From there his studies took him to St. Tikhons Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan Pennsylvania where he became a novice in the oldest American Orthodox Monastery. Graduated in 1988, he was ordained to the Priesthood and served as priest at the Macedonian-Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Lorain, Ohio. From there he was given the position as priest in charge of All Saints Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Detroit, Michigan.
Defending the Patristic calander of the church, he was received into the Russian Church Abroad under Metropolitan Vilaly and blessed to build a Monastery in Mid-West America. During this time the Metropolitan retired to Canada and the completion of the Monastery became difficult.
The Patriarchate of Bulgaria, Under His Holiness MAXIM, with the blessing of His Eminence JOSEPH accepted the monastery into the Patriarchal Bulgarian Diocese as an old calander Russian Monastery.
Archimandrite Pachomy was Rasaphored in 1992 and tonsured by the Schena-Igumen Joachim in 1996. Raised to the rank of Igumen by decree of the Bulgarian Church at the hand of Metropolitan JOSEPH in 2003 and elevated to Archimandrite in 2006.
The Monastery of St. Sabbas has many ties to various Monastic communities of Russia and visitors from respected monastic communities visit yearly. The monastery also is blessed to have brotherly ties with monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.
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