Silouan the Athonite [SEP] canonization status
, Archimandrite Sophrony. Father Sophrony has written the life of the saint along with a record of St. Silouan's teachings in the book "Saint Silouan the Athonite".
Starets Silouan was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1987.
Quotations.
- "Those who dislike and reject their fellow-man are impoverished in their being. They do not know the true God, who is all-embracing love."
- "Keep your mind in hell and do not despair", said to be a teaching
added to the Church calendar: in 1962 St. John the Russian, in 1970 St. Herman of Alaska, in 1993 Silouan the Athonite, the elder of Mount Athos, already canonized in 1987 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In the 1980s the Russian Orthodox Church re-established the process for canonization; a practice that had ceased for half a century.
In 1989, the Holy Synod established the Synodal Commission for canonization. The 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church gave an order for the Synodal Commission for Canonisation