Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop (Russian: ?????´? ?????´?????? ??´???, Sergej Anatol'evic Torop; born 14 January 1961 in Krasnodar, Russian SFSR), known by his followers as Vissarion (Russian: ????????´?, IPA: [v??s?r??'on], "He who gives new life"), is a Russian mystic and spiritual leader.
On 18 August 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" (??????? ?????????? ?????? Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as "Community of Unified Faith", with its head church located in the Siberian Taiga in the Minusinsk Depression east of Abakan, in the small settlement of Petropavlovka.
He teaches reincarnation, vegetarianism, and apocalypse.
He has around 4,000 followers (called Vissarionites) living in the settlement and around 10,000 followers worldwide.