Vissarion

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Sergei Anatolyevich Torop (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич То́роп; born 14 January 1961), better known as Vissarion (Russian: Виссарио́н), is a Russian religious leader, self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus, and founder of the Church of the Last Testament. He has been described by various organisations and media sources as a cult leader. His adopted name is the Russian form of the Greek name Βησσαρίων (Bessarion or Vissarion), meaning "wooded valley" or "ravine", while "life-giving" is a later devotional interpretation. 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”. 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...

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