Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev: biography, interesting facts from life

Today, Orthodox people, as never before, have the opportunity to freely familiarize themselves with the spiritual works of modern erudite and intelligent preachers and theologians who do much to glorify the name of the Lord and give answers to the most burning questions of any Christian. Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev is one of them, and besides, he is a very famous publicist and missionary who conquers with his brilliant sermons, because in his own way it is original and everything about which he talks, can not help but find a response in human hearts. In many unbelieving people, he awakened a true faith in God. The sermons of Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev in the form of video clips, audio recordings and lectures can be viewed or read on Internet sites.

Biography

Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev was born in 1961 in the wonderful town of Orekhovo-Zuevo near Moscow. His whole family was Orthodox. Grandmother - Matryona Fedorovna - worked in the temple, she was the mother-heroine, since she gave birth to 11 children. The most hated and abusive she had was the word "communist".

Oleg Stenyaev's grandfather was a front-line soldier, he worked anywhere, only not on the state, as a stove-maker, joiner and builder. He never received an official salary or a pension. Oleg's parents, as well as his uncles and aunts, lived in accordance with God's laws, they all married and baptized their children. In the Komsomol, none of them joined.

The whole family lived apart on the bank of the Klyazma River in a large private house without a television set, but with the Bible. Not far from them was the functioning church of the Nativity of the Virgin.

Once in the kindergarten Oleg noticed a cross on his chest, which he immediately seized by force, and then thrown away. The boy was very hurt, he cried a long time later.

School

At school, everyone also knew that Oleg Stenyaev was from a believing family, so one day a special commission was created that came to their home and suddenly saw a Bible on their table. Uninvited guests immediately began to resent what the child is reading. But my grandmother did not lose her head, took a broom and "swept" them out of her house. It was the 70th, believers could no longer fear for their lives and behaved quite boldly. Then Oleg agitated to join the Komsomol, but he refused, surprisingly, but his class supported him. And even the teacher of literature Stanislav Andreevich - a disabled war veteran and a Communist - defended him and believed that he was a normal student, and they made an atheist of him.

After graduation, Oleg went to work as a turner, a bastard, then he was taken into the army in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after that he decided that he would be a policeman. Grandmother did not approve of this and sent him to seminary, but for family reasons he did not finish it. Then he was ordained a deacon, and he served in the Ivanovo, Tambov and Moscow dioceses.

The Stolen Bride

Once before him there was a choice: to marry or to accept monasticism. He had a girl from Western Ukraine, and Oleg decided to take her as his wife. But during the reorganization of Gorbachev, the Greek Catholic Church was legalized, in which the rite was Orthodox, and the faith was Catholic. Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Gomel dioceses left the Moscow Patriarchate. The bride's parents wanted him to accept their faith, but he refused. As a result, his fiancee became a nun of a Catholic monastery. Oleg remembered the brightest and kindest memories of her, they even corresponded at one time, but according to the rules of their order the letters were to be read at all and their abbess forbade them. From this moment, Stenyaev had a special fuse in polemics with people of the heterodox. Because of them, he was left without a bride.

Dissenter

In 1990, just before the collapse of the USSR, he read an article in the Pravda newspaper that the Patriarch was praying for unity in the CPSU. This was the reason that Oleg Stenyaev moved into a non-canonical orthodox association - a community that broke away from the ROCA. Then he served in the Martha and Mary Convent. But when the Soviet regime collapsed, he came with repentance, he was forgiven, especially since he returned the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery under the administration of the ROC, although before that he gathered his clergy and parishioners, where they jointly decided to return to the united Church.

Oleg Stenyaev graduated from the theological seminary, and then the Moscow Theological Academy, and was elevated to the rank of archpriest. Since 2004, he serves as a clergyman of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist (Moscow, Sokolniki district). Stenyaev became the author of a number of programs on Radio Radonezh and the chairman of the newspaper Missionary Observer. He headed the Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Unconventional Religions, thanks to which over three thousand people became Orthodox.

Chechen War

During the first war in Chechnya in the early 90s, Stenyaev often visited the Russian military, many of them he baptized, and simply handed out crosses, and they were taken even by the Muslims who served there. The soldiers explained this by saying that they are fighting for Russia.

In the second Chechen archpriest Oleg Stenyaev went with a charitable mission, he gave out warm clothes and food to the peaceful people of the city of Grozny. And one day they were halted by Chechen rebels. They were very fortunate that one Chechen recognized Stenyaev, since he saw how he distributed grits and condensed milk to children on the square. They were released, but the car stalled. Stenyaev understood that they could now be easily put in a cold and dark pit. He took out some alcohol and took a sip to warm up and cheer up a little. The militants began to deal with their engine. Stenyaev spoke to one of them and asked why they are still detaining three Orthodox priests in their captivity, to which he replied that they are not priests, but paratroopers are sports feysbeshniki.

Turning to Stenyaev, he said that it immediately shows that he is a Russian pop - fat, impudent, drunk and does not fear anything. And he added that Allah will punish the one who touches him. After that the priest got into his transport. The militants pushed their minibus, and they drove on. Yes, it is not for nothing that they say that there are no atheists in the war.

Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev: books

In his authorship came out many books. He is an expert in the field of sectology and comparative theology, so on this subject he wrote many books: "Jehovah's Witnesses. Who are they? "(1996)," Conversations on Genesis "(1999)," Hare Krishna, who are they? "(2004)," Satanism "(2002)," Conversations for the Gospel of Matthew "(2009) and many more.

Protopriest Oleg Stenyaev: "The Apocalypse"

The book by Oleg Stenyaev, which he called "Conversations on the Apocalypse", was quite interesting and very fascinating. In it, he studied the most complex biblical book, "The Revelation of John the Divine," or "Apocalypse" (Greek translation). He deciphers it in a modern way. Not every priest and theologian will take up this interpretation, but Oleg Stenyaev did everything in the most magnificent way. At first he simply conducted conversations with parishioners on these topics, but then he was asked to create a book that many believers now read with great pleasure. On the Internet you can see even the video clip of archpriest Oleg Stenyaev, who has the same name with a book.