At the age of 51, Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Vsevolod Chaplin died. This was announced by a member of the Public Chamber, Alexander Pelin.

“He died, having served the Divine Liturgy, after the Holy Communion sat on a bench by the temple, he felt ill and died,” he wrote on Facebook.

The death of Chaplin was commented by the chairman of the Synodal Department for the Relations of the Church with Society and the Media Vladimir Legoyda.

“Today Father Vsevolod Chaplin died. We worked for several years together, talked a lot, sometimes argued a lot. Kingdom of Heaven! ”, He wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to the president of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy, the head of the State Duma committee on the development of civil society, issues of public and religious associations, Sergei Gavrilov, Chaplin’s temperament and sincerity “earned great respect”.

“It was possible to agree or disagree with many views of Father Vsevolod Chaplin, but I am convinced of one thing, knowing him well that they were always motivated by love and jealousy to preserve the faith and the Russian Orthodox Church,” he told RT.

Vsevolod Chaplin became a symbol of awakened public interest in the church, I am convinced

“He was able to speak brightly and sharply about the most sensitive topics and make a joke. I think that everyone will remember and will remember that with his father Vsevolod Chaplin, with all his external menacing menace, it was always fun. This more than compensated for some extravagance in many of his statements, which he had. So Father Vsevolod Chaplin is a public figure of his era, who in general has become one of those symbols of that great, awakened interest in the church, in church subjects in the socio-political space of the 2010s, ”he stressed in an interview with RT.

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Biography

Vsevolod Chaplin was born on March 31, 1968 in Moscow. His father was the famous Soviet scientist Anatoly Chaplin. According to Vsevolod, the family was non-religious, and he became a believer by the age of 13.

After leaving school in 1985, he began work in the Russian Orthodox Church. Then he became an employee of the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate in the expedition department. On the recommendation of his leader, Metropolitan Pitirim entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. After she graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy.

Since 1990, he began working in the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1999, he received the rank of archpriest, and in 2001 became deputy chairman of the department.

In 2009, the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society was established. The first and last leader was Chaplin.

At the end of 2015, the department was liquidated, and powers were transferred to other units. Soon Chaplin was expelled from the Inter-Council Presence.

"A very expressive interlocutor"

Since 2016, Chaplin was the rector of the church of St. Theodore Studite at the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow.

  • Theodore Studite Temple at Nikitsky Gate in Moscow.
  • © Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti

Vsevolod Chaplin was a media person. He conducted programs on various television channels and radio stations, published, often gave interviews and commented on certain events and news. Often his statements caused a wide public outcry and discussion.

According to Andrei Bystritsky, Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at the Higher School of Economics, Chairman of the Board of the Development and Support Fund for the Valdai International Discussion Club, many did not like Chaplin’s readiness to defend his position.

“I knew Father Vsevolod for a very long time, for many, many years. He was a bright, contradictory person, not afraid to defend his point of view. It is clear that many did not like it, many liked it, but the person was very outstanding, and I do not even want to talk about him in the past tense. Seva, of course, was a very gifted person, educated to an outstanding degree, and a very paradoxical, clear mind, ”he emphasized in a conversation with RT.

According to Bystritsky, Chaplin was "a very expressive interlocutor of our time."

“It was a strong and expressive personality,” he said. - We always kept in touch, unfortunately, unfortunately, not always as often as we would like. We met, talked, argued a lot, discussed various problems. ”