Vissarion

Vissarion

Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич То́роп, Sergej Anatolʹevič Torop; born 14 January 1961), known as Vissarion (Russian: Виссарио́н, IPA: [vʲɪsərʲɪˈon], "He who gives new life" or "life-giving"), is a Russian spiritual teacher and founder of the non-profit, religious organization Church of the Last Testament, described by many organizations as a cult. According to the followers of Sergei Torop and some of his own explanations, on 18 August 1990, at the age of 29, Sergey had a “spiritual awakening”.[1] He gave his first public teaching after awakening in Minusinsk on 18 August 1991. He founded the Church of the Last Testament (Церковь Последнего Завета Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as the Community of Unified Faith, with its head church located in the Siberian Taiga in the Minusinsk Basin east of Abakan, in the small settlement called Abode of Dawn (official name) or The Sun City (unofficial name) near Petropavlovka. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vissarion has received more than 705,603 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vissarion is the 2,619th most popular religious figure (down from 2,163rd in 2019), the 2,080th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,826th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Religious Figure.