Archimandrite Viktor (Mamontov)

Archimandrite Viktor (Mamontov) (1938, Amur Oblast, Russian SFSR – 2016, Karsava, Republic of Latvia) – senior priest of of St. Euphrosyne Church in Karsava..

V. Mamontov was born it the Far East and studied at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Pedagogical Institure specializing in the Russian language and literature. Later he worked as teacher in a country school. From 1962 to 1965 did post-graduate studies at  Moscow State Pedagogical Institure and defended a thesis, was granted a degree of the candidate of philological sciences. But V. Mamontov preferred a diffrent career. His desire to devote his life to God took the upper hand. In 1971 he was baptised and when he came to Latvia he was tonsured to become a monk. Later he was inducted into deacon and presbyter.

V. Mamonrov served in Alexander Nevsky church in Riga, from 1982 –  senior priest of St. Euphrosyne Church in Karsava.