Diomid (Dzyuban)
Diomid Dzyuban (), born Sergey Ivanovich Dzyuban (; 24 June 1961 – 20 November 2021), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was the bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka from August 2000 to June 2008. He was also the formal leader of the extremely small non-canonical religious group "Holy Governing Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church". Diomid was known for his views condemning ecumenism, taxpayer ID, cell phones, new passports, vaccination and globalisation. He believed that the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church have "departed from the purity of the Orthodoxal dogma" in its support of the Russian government and of democracy, as well as its ecumenism with other confessions. Biography Sergey Dzyuban was born in Kadiivka, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from the Kharkiv Radio-Electronics Institute in 1983 and worked as an engineer in the Kharkiv Construction-Technological Bureau. In 1987, he was tonsured a monk (as Diomid) at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius north of Moscow by Archimandrite Alexis (Kutepov) (now Metropolitan of Tula and Efremov). Diomid completed study at the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1989 and began studies at the Moscow Theological Academy that same year, completing study there in 1993. He was ordained a hieromonk