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His Eminence the Most Reverend [[Metropolitan]] '''Laurus (SkurlaŠkurla) of New York''' was the first hierarch of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] from 2001 until his death on [[March 16]], 2008.
==Life==
The future hierarch was born Vassily Mikhailovich Skurla Škurla on [[January 1]], 1928, in the village of Lodomirovo, Czechoslavakia, to Mikhail Ivanovich and Elena Mikhaolovna SkurlaŠkurla. His family was devotedly Orthodox Christian in an area of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire that was strongly influenced by [[Roman Catholic]]s.
When he was five, Vassily began serving at the [[altar]] of the [[Church]] of St. Job at the Pochaev [[Monastery]] in Ladomirova, which was the [[parish]] church for the local Orthodox population. At the age of eight, young Vassily approached the [[abbot]] of the monastery, [[Archimandrite]] Seraphim, to accept him as a [[novice]]. In 1939, at the age of eleven, his father gave him permission to join the monastery, and he began to fully participate in the monastery life while he continued his required secondary education. He remained in the monastery throughout World War II, until the approach of the Soviet Army in 1944.
[[Category:First Hierarchs of the ROCOR]]
[[es:Laurus (SkurlaŠkurla) de Nueva York]]
