![](images/groups_photos/VissarionPortrait1.jpg) Vissarion
Last Testament Church
![](images/g_officialname.gif) Last Testament Church
![](images/g_altname.gif) Community of Single Faith (1991), Vissarion
![](images/g_foundersname.gif) Sergei Anatolyevich Torop (a.k.a. Vissarion) (1961-)
![](images/g_currentleaders.gif) Sergei Anatolyevich Torop (a.k.a. Vissarion) (1961-); Vadim Redkin (prominent leader, biographer of Vissarion, and the author of the Last Testament)
![](images/g_foundingplace.gif) Krasnoyarsk region, Russia
![](images/g_headquarters.gif) Tiberkul/Ecopolis/Abode of Dawn (Krasnoyarsk region, Russia)
![](images/g_books.gif) Vissarion’s Doctrine — The Last Testament (several volumes of "The Word of Vissarion" and about 20 volumes of "Vadim’s Narration")
![](images/g_periodicals.gif) Dream Land
![](images/g_beliefs.gif) Vissarion—who says he is a reincarnation of Jesus—claims that the world is in a state of religious crisis and that the "end-times" are near.
![](images/g_controversies.gif) Among other controversial statements, Vissarion indicated that something like the end of the world would occur in 2007 (see www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ne_gmZHfJh0).
![](images/g_commentary.gif) Vissarion’s denials and distortions of biblical Christianity are numerous. For example, he claims that Jesus Christ was not God; that Jesus’ primary mission was to prepare for Vissarion’s coming; that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem; that Jesus had 14 apostles; that Jesus rose from the grave on the fourth day; that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus because of a girl named Iskandal’ whom he loved very much (but she loved Jesus instead); that Judas did not hang himself, but died from heavy drinking; that Jesus suffered on the cross for a day and a half; and that the Second Coming of Jesus already took place through Vissarion.
![](images/g_adherents.gif) 5,000-50,000
![](images/g_countries.gif) Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, United States
![](images/g_languages.gif) include Bulgarian, English, German, Russian
![](images/g_resources.gif) www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/9906b.html
apologetika.ru/win/index.php3?razd=1&id1=27&id2=246
![](images/g_news.gif) www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/cult-leader-vissarion-reincarnation-jesus-arrested-siberia-russia
www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/12/16/the-vissarion-christ-inside-russia-s-end-times-cults.html
www.abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=5225539&page=1
en.rian.ru/society/20090616/155265849.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zUMM3dV_g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjTwGqqXa4M
![](images/g_sites.gif) www.vissarion.world
www.vissarion.eu/en
www.vissarion.eu
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