Father Alexander Kryssov
He is one of the rare Russian Catholic, especially Traditional Catholic priests. He is a sedevacantist priest from the CMRI. He was born on June 26, 1966 in Fryazino, Moscow, Soviet Union. In 1984, he converted to Catholicism under the Lithuanian priest Father Stanislaus Mazeika, MIC.
Father Mazeika was a traditionalist priest from Lithuania. When Vatican II struck, he was not tainted with it due to the communist restrictions of Western information in the Soviet Union. From 1967 to 1990, he served in the St. Louis Church in Moscow until it was captured by the modernists in the 1990s.
From the 1990s until his death in 1995, Fr. Mazeika celebrated the Traditional Mass for his parishioners in his private chapel. After he died, his parishioners looked for traditional Mass groups. Eventually, the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen based in Spokane replied to them and Bishop Pivarunas, the head of the CMRI (who is Lithuanian-American) sent a German priest who had experiences with the USSR, Fr. Eugen Rissling. In 1999, Alexander Kryssov founded the St. Pius V chapel, where Father Rissling had masses offered. In 2004, Kryssov became a seminarian in the CMRI seminary, Mater Dei Seminary. On October 7, 2008, feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, he was ordained a priest in Spokane.
Father Kryssov offers masses in former USSR countries such as Russia and Georgia. Since 2018, he has been assigned to the Asia Pacific mission of CMRI including Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. He is also a historian and has many doctorates and is a consultant for the Russian Schismatic Orthodox Church and he can speak Russian, Polish, French and a little bit of English.
I am so grateful to him for allowing the first sedevacantist mass in Cebu, especially that Cebu, the cradle of Christianity in the Philippines had been deprived of a true mass for decades since 1971.
I can compare his spiritual father, Fr. Stanislaus Mazeika to Fr. Leandro Moran, my grandma's priest in Santo Nino church from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Thank you very much for starting a traditionalist mission in Cebu.
Our Lady of Vladimir, pray for Russia and the Philippines!
Ryan Joseph
Sources:
cmri.eu
Mater Dei Seminary newsletter
cmri.org
