Eugenia Parfyonova, B. A. in Theology, SFI (Moscow)
pp. 59–84
The article, based on published sources and archival records, examines the ministry and spiritual heritage of Archpriest Nikolay Butkin, the Ural uncanonised new martyr. The author focuses on the issues of church life revival such as restoring the priestly ministry as profession of faith, building the church life in the spirit of brotherhood; granting the inner freedom to the church in relations with the state, overcoming the separateness between clergy and laity as well as between church and society. The article outlines the main stages of Archpriest Nikolay Butkin’s life and ministry. His texts, published in church press and those recently discovered in archives, are also briefly reviewed.
Keywords: Archpriest Nikolay Butkin, Shadrinsk, Saviour’s Transfiguration Cathedral, Simeon Brotherhood, the novel “The Winegrowers”, church life revival, history of Orthodoxy in the Urals, the XX century history of the Russian Orthodox Church.