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Hieronymus Ekziemplarski
Hieronymus, secular name Ilya Tikhonovich Ekziemplarski, (born 20 July 1836 in Dmitriyevy Gory, died 2 November 1905 in Warsaw) was an archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. Hieronymus came from a family of Orthodox priests. He graduated from the theological seminary in Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir and then from the Kiev Theological Academy, Kyiv Theological Academy. After obtaining his degree in theological sciences in 1861, he was employed as a lecturer at the theological seminary in Kyiv, specializing in pedagogy and homiletics. He was ordained a priest in 1871 as a married man. He served in Kyiv and was also a catechist in various schools in the city. In 1885, nine years after his wife's death, he took permanent monastic vows, adopting the monastic name Hieronymus. Later that year, he was consecrated as the bishop of Chehrin, a vicar of the Kyiv eparchy. From 1890 to 1894, he was the ordinary of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Lithuania, from 1894 to 1898 of the , and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), primate of the ROC is the patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. The History of the Russian Orthodox Church, history of the ROC begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus', which commenced in 988 with the baptism of Vladimir the Great and his subjects by the clergy of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. Starting in the 14th century, Moscow served as the primary residence of the Russian List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, metropolitan. The ROC declared autocephaly in 1448 when it elected its own metropolitan. In 1589, the metropolitan was elevated to the position of patriarch with the consent of Constantinople. In the mid-17th century, a series of reforms led to Schism of the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
