Myunhensky Monastery

Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev in Munchen-Obermenzing, Germany (Russian: Обитель преподобного Иова близ Мюнхена, Германия). In 1923, the archimandrite of the Pochaev Lavra Vitaly (Maximenko) exported the historical typography of the Lavra to the Carpathian Mountins. The monastery of St. Job, from 1924 until 1944, furnished all of the Russian Diaspora with service books and spiritual literature. Metropolitan Laurus of New York (January 1, 1928 – March 16, 2008), the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, was born in the village of Ladomirova, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia). When he was five, he 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. In 1939 he began to fully participate in the monastery life. He remained within the monastery throughout World War II, until the approach of the Soviet Army in 1944. When in 1944, Soviet forces neared the monastery, a large portion of the monks left for Germany, then to Switzerland, and finally to Jordanville. Those monks who did not depart for America, along with new novices and monks, gathered around Archimandrite Job in Germany, near Munich.