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Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop (, Sergej Anatolʹevič Torop; born January 14, 1961 in Krasnodar, Russian SFSR), known by his followers as Vissarion ( Russian: Виссарион, "He who gives new life"), is a Russian mystic and sect leader. He founded and heads a religious or sect movement known as the Church of the Last Testament with its head church in the Siberian Taiga in the Minusinsk Depression east of Abakan, in the southern Siberia Kuraginsk district of Krasnoyarsk territory, in the small settlement of Petropavlovka. He has around 4,000 followers (called Vissarionites) living in the settlement and around 10,000 followers worldwide.
Vissarion claims to be a reincarnated Christ. He teaches reincarnation, vegetarianism, and apocalypse. On August 18, 1990, when he was 29, Vissarion claims that he had a revelation that he was the reincarnation of Christ. He first spoke publicly in Minusinsk on 18 August 1991. He founded the "Church of the Last Testament" (Церковь Последнего Завета Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as "Community of Unified Faith".
Vissarion (, ) οr Visarion is a Greek male given name, which may refer to:
- Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Catholic cardinal and Latin patriarch of Constantinople
- Visarion, Metropolitan of Herzegovina (s. 1590–1602)
- Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), Russian literary critic
- Visarion Ljubiša (1823–1884), Metropolitan of Montenegro (s. 1882–84)
- Vissarion Dzhugashvili (1849–1909), father of Joseph Stalin
- Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop
- Vissarion Korkoliacos (1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monk
- Visarion Xhuvani (1890–1965), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania (s. 1929–37)
- Vissarion (born 1961), Russian mystic
- Vissarion Shebalin (born 1963), Russian composer
- I. C. Vissarion (1879-1951), Romanian writer
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