Archbishop Aaron ( 1688 - May 7 ( 18 ), 1738 ) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsky (1735−1738).
| Archbishop Aaron | ||
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| December 28, 1735 - May 7, 1738 | ||
| Predecessor | German (Koptsevich) | |
| Successor | Savva (Shpakovsky) | |
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Biography
Born in 1688. In 1734 he was appointed rector of the Moscow Miracle Monastery , transferred here from the Yaroslavl Spassky Monastery , and was appointed a member of the Synod .
On August 23, 1735 he was appointed archbishop to Arkhangelsk , and on December 28 he was ordained bishop in the presence of Empress Anna and left in St. Petersburg for a year to be present at the Synod . On July 10, 1736, he was present, along with other members of the Synod, at the oath taken for interrogation of the Tver Archbishop Feofilakt (Lopatinsky) . On November 1, he was present during interrogations in the secret office of his predecessor, the miracle archimandrite Euthymius (Kaleti), who was deprived of his dignity and died in a fortress in 1738.
Then sent to the diocese. He arrived in Kholmogory only in March 1737, and in fact managed only a year with a little [1], and died on May 7, 1738. Buried in the Kholmogory Transfiguration Cathedral .
Notes
- ↑ A. V. Kamkin The Orthodox Church in the North of Russia: Essays on History until 1917 1992
Sources
- Aaron, Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsky // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Provincial Necropolis
- Aaron, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.