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the Theologian’s) Nuns’ Convent
The settlement of Sura, one of the most ancient settlements on the Pinega River, is known as a place once inhabited by the pagan Chud tribes. The Sura phenomenon is in the fact that the pagan village where pagan and Old believers’ traditions are still alive today have given the world two saints – representatives of the secular clergy – Sergiy Malopinezhsky (St.Sergius of Malaya Pinega) and Ioann Kronstadtsky (St.John of Kronstandt); the latter was famous through the whole of Russia as a great man of prayer and later, in 1899, founded the Sursky Ioanno-Bogoslovsky (St. John the Theologian’s) Nuns’ Convent. The Sursky Convent was closed in 1920.
Today it is the only nuns’ convent in the Arkhangelsk Region; it was revived on October 31, 1994, by the blessing of Panteleimon, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.
In 1988 new nuns appeared in the settlement of Sura. They came here from Kazakhstan and Moldova. Today there are eight sisters in Sura. They observe the Convent Regulations, therefore each day they obey the Benedictine Rule and read the akathists to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. John of Kronstandt, St John the Theologian. They saw and cut wood for fire themselves, bring water, bake prosphoras, take care of the cow.
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