The Notions of Personhood and Communityin the Pastoral Practices of Bishop Makariy (Opotsky)
The article considers the correlation between the notions of personhood and community in the writings and pastoral practices of Bishop Makariy (Opotsky), who founded a number of Orthodox brotherhoods across Russia at different times between 1908 and 1941. The research was made possible by the publication of Bishop Makariy’s addresses to the 1914 Diocesan Missionary Conference and by having access to one of his spiritual daughters’ personal archive where she stored his numerous talks and sermons. In them, he had processed the notions of both personhood and community.