Archpriest Sergei Alekseyevich Hackel (alternate spelling Gakkel, Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Гаккель; 24 August 1931 – 9 February 2005) was a British Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, academic and broadcaster, who was the senior priest in Britain of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh.
[1] His family had once owned a large house in Saint Petersburg opposite the Winter Palace, and his parents were part of a circle of intellectuals who moved to Germany following the 1917 revolution.
He studied Modern Languages at Lincoln College, Oxford before training for ordination.
[3] His first parish was in Lewes and while in this position he lectured at the European Studies School at Sussex University.
For the last 30 years of his life he was editor of the ecumenical Orthodox journal Sobornost.