Monastic tonsure at the Guslitsky monastery 07/09/2026translated
On July 9, in the home church of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers of the Guslitsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, Bishop Nikolai of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevsky tonsured the monastery cleric Reader Kirill Khorev with the name Basilisk, in honor of the Venerable Basilisk of Siberia. The rite of tonsure was attended by the dean of the monasteries of the Balashikha diocese, hegumen Evmeniy (Lagutin), the rector of the monastery, hegumen Seraphim (Golovanov), the dean of the Orekhovo-Zuevsky church district, hieromonk Andrei (Korobkov), the rector of the Pokrovsko-Vasilievsky monastery, hegumen Andrei (Tonkov), and clerics of the monastery in holy orders. At the end of the service, His Eminence addressed the newly tonsured Brother Basilisk with archpastoral instructions.
