Saint John Chrysostom wrote: “Having concern for the welfare of people, so that many of them would not live more senselessly than animals, God established the power of rulers and kings, like the reins for steering a ship.” Chrysostom says: “So, we must send great gratitude to God both for the fact that there are kings and for the fact that there are judges.”
St. Isidore of Pelusium testified: “The leadership and power of the king were established by God. But if some lawless villain seizes this power, then we do not claim that he was appointed by God, but we say that it was allowed to him.”
St. Gregory the Theologian states: “Blessed is he who with laborious hands honors the King and serves as the law of life for many.”
St. Dmitry of Rostov teaches: “The face and dignity of the Christian King on earth is the living image and likeness of Christ the King living in heaven.”
St. Seraphim of Sarov instructs: “After Orthodoxy, they (kings) are our first Russian duty and the main foundation of true Christian piety.” And also: “In the eyes of God there is no better power than the power of the Orthodox Tsar.”
Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) also spoke out repeatedly on the topic of monarchical power . In particular, he wrote: “It is good for the people and the state in which the Tsar stands as a single, universal and all-moving focus, like the sun in the universe, freely limiting his unlimited autocracy by the will of the Heavenly King, the wisdom even from God... The people who honor the Tsar are pleased through this to God, because the King is God’s dispensation... God, in the image of His heavenly unity of command, established a King on earth; in the image of His heavenly omnipotence he created an autocratic King on earth; in the image of His enduring kingdom... He established a hereditary King on earth.”
St. John of Kronstadt taught and instructed in a fatherly manner: “Remember: if there is no monarchy, there will be no Russia. Only the monarchical system gives strength to Russia; under the constitution, it will all be divided into parts.” He warned: “Russia, hold fast to your faith, the Church, and the Orthodox Tsar, if you want to be unshakable by people of unbelief and anarchy and do not want to lose the kingdom and the Orthodox Tsar.” The All-Russian Shepherd from the past addresses us: “And you, friends, stand firmly for the Tsar, honor, love him, love the Holy Church and the Fatherland, and remember that autocracy is the only condition for the prosperity of Russia; If there is no autocracy, there will be no Russia.”
The Monk Barsanuphius of Optina echoes him : “Our Tsar is the representative of the will of God, and not of the people. His will is sacred to us, like the will of God’s Anointed; we love him because we love God. The King gives us glory and prosperity, we accept this from him as the mercy of God. Whether dishonor and disaster befall us, we endure them with meekness and humility, like heavenly execution for our iniquities, and we will never change our love and devotion to the King.”
St. Patriarch Tikhon addressed the believers: “The Tsar is a “father” for the people, as the people themselves touchingly call him. We, brothers, will pray to the Lord that He will continue to preserve the autocratic Tsar for Russia and grant him the wisdom and strength to judge the people and the Russian state in silence and without sorrow.”
There are also noteworthy statements by foreign hierarchs. For example, Anthony IV, Patriarch of Constantinople, stated: “It is impossible for Christians to have a Church, but not to have a Tsar. For the Kingdom and the Church are in close union and communion with each other, and it is impossible to separate them from each other.”
Gregory IV, Patriarch of Antioch, said: “The holy form of government, blessed by God and pleasing to Him, is autocratic, headed by God himself, appointed by the Sovereign Scepter of the Scepter, the King, who is not an ordinary person, but the Anointed One of God, who, through sacred anointing, received extra grace for great and difficult things.” the business of governing the people." He emphasized the following: “To strengthen holy thought through Scripture, to be a faithful defender of the Orthodox faith, the autocratic Tsar and the Fatherland is a glorious and holy deed, the most important thing, a matter of paramount importance and pleasing to God.”
And we will finish quoting the thoughts of famous teachers and pastors of the Church with the thoughts of Rev. Ioan Vostorgova. He wrote: “Together with faith and love for God, unshakable love for the Tsar, established for centuries and sanctified by the church, served as a mighty stronghold of our nation in its historical destinies... The Lord God placed the Tsar in His place, placed judgment and mercy on the royal throne.”
From the book by V. Larionov. Orthodox monarchy. National monarchy in Russia. Utopia, or Political Reality
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