Bishop Aaron ( Afanasy Vladimirovich Eropkin in the world, in the Alipy schema; c. 1663 , Moscow - May 1 (12), 1740 , Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert , Tver province ) - bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , bishop of Korelsky and Ladoga , vicar of the Novgorod diocese .
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| November 6, 1727 - July 1, 1730 | ||
| Predecessor | Joachim | |
| Successor | Joseph (Khvabulov) | |
| January 24, 1714 - June 23, 1723 | ||
| Predecessor | Joel (Vyazmitin) | |
| Successor | Joachim | |
| Birth name | Afanasy Vladimirovich Eropkin | |
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Biography
Of the ancient noble family of the Eropkins , the son of a stolnik, served at the court of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich , participated in the Crimean campaigns , engaged in diplomacy, rose to the stolnik, like his father, after the conclusion of the Eternal Peace with the Commonwealth (1686) [1] .
The supporter of the Miloslavskys , after the fall of Sofya Alekseevna in 1689, voluntarily left the world in the Nilo-Stolbensky desert , where on August 6, 1691 he took monastic tonsure.
Thanks to the patronage of the Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikiy Lutsk, Job was successively the treasurer , builder and viceroy of the Nile desert, then, since May 1700, he was the viceroy of the Onega Monastery in the rank of hegumen .
In January 1704, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite of the Valdai Iversky monastery , then he ruled the Varlaamo-Khutynsky monastery .
Since November 21, 1708 - rector of the St. George Monastery in Novgorod .
On January 24, 1714, in the city of Moscow he was ordained bishop of Korelsky and Ladoga, vicar of Metropolitan Job.
In 1716 - 1721 he managed the widowed Novgorod department , became famous for the large expenses for charity and education. In 1719, with his blessing, the first temple of the renewed Valaam Monastery was consecrated. Present at the approval of the Spiritual Rules . In 1721 he was accused of financial abuse, in 1723 he was fired to retire to the Nilova Stolobensky deserts .
In 1727 he was returned to the vicar department by the new Novgorod ruler, the famous Feofan Prokopovich , but due to a conflict with him in 1730 he was again sent to rest there, and in 1735 due to the filing of the empress Anna Ioannovna petition with a request for protection of Aaron on the orders of Feofan ended up in custody in a monastery, without the right to write and control the desert. Before death, he took a schema named Alipius.
Notes
- β Eropkins // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Aaron (Eropkin) Orthodox Encyclopedia
- Aaron (Eropkin) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
- KORELIAN AND LADOJ DIOCESE (1685-1758). The resumption of the Korel diocese - as Novgorod vicarism
- Rectors of St. George Monastery