Archbishop Pakhomiy (died May 31, 1655) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , Archbishop of Astrakhan and Terek , spiritual writer of the 17th century.
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Biography
Not quite undoubted information was preserved about the early life of Pachomius, stating that before his appointment as archimandrite he lived in Vologda , most likely, with the local Archbishop Varlaam .
Reliable biographical information about Pachomia has been available only since 1638 , when it was determined by the archimandrite of the Novgorod Khutynsky Spaso-Varlaamiev monastery to the place of Archimandrite Raphael who had passed to the archbishop's department in Astrakhan.
After the death of Archbishop Raphael in 1640, Pachomius was ordained a bishop in 1641 and was appointed to his place [1] .
As an administrator, Pakhomiy showed a lot of energy in defending the Nogai Tatars from oppression of the Astrakhan governor Telyatevsky ; Pointing to tsar Mikhail Fedorovich of abusing the governor, he ordered Telyatevsky for bailiffs along with the second voivod Ivan Trakhaniotov to order the bailiffs and manage the affairs of the region until Prince Repnin arrived in Astrakhan. As can be seen from these messages, Pachomius had the confidence of the king; in his activities he gained respect from both his congregation and the Gentiles.
In a slightly different form, he is portrayed by the testimony given by Kostka Konyukhovsky, a supporter of the impostor Timofey Akundinov , who pretended to be the son of Tsar Vasily Shuisky . Kostka reported under torture on a rack , bathog and fire that Archbishop Pakhomiy was in conspiracy with Akundinov and promised to assist him in his proposed campaign in Kazan and Astrakhan to secure the throne; the denunciation was probably not recognized as noteworthy, since Pachomius retained the pulpit, despite the fact that Akundin was quartered in 1653.
He died on May 31, 1655 during the plague of the plague [2] . Buried in the lower cathedral.
Works
Pachomius is known as the compiler of the chronograph, which has come down to our time in the later lists. The chronograph is divided into two parts: 1) The chronicler briefly from the creation of the world (brought to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks) and 2) The chronicler briefly about the Russian land, from which the tribe is Russian and Slavonic people, and why is called the family of great princes [3] . The chronograph lists kept an interesting letter from Pachomius to hieromonk Mishail (printed by Popov in The Review of Chronographs) asking for help in the correspondence of his work from the columns, as he was written, into the book; from the same letter it is clear that the chronograph was made in 1650 (in some lists it is supplemented with messages about events relating to subsequent years). The sources of the work of Pachomius were mainly scriptures and chronographs; Russian articles are borrowed partly also from chronographs, partly from a power book; only a small part of the chronicler is not a compilation, but an independent work of Pachomius; This share concerns the events of 1619–1650 and contains the comments of the compiler on the patriarchs Philaret and Joasaph and on his story about the Smolensk campaign of Shein .
Notes
- ↑ H. Kamensky, “A Brief History of the Astrakhan Hierarchy” (“Astrakhan Diocesan Gazette”, 1883, No. 3.
- ↑ Sreznevsky V.I. Pakhomiy (Archbishop of Astrakhan and Terek) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ Pachomius, 17th century writer. // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Novikova OL. On the origin of the Archbishop of Astrakhan and Terek Pakhomiya // Alliance-Archeo Herald. - M .; SPb., 2016. - Vol. 15 - p . 60-67 .
- Sreznevsky V.I. Pakhomiy (Archbishop of Astrakhan and Terek) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
Links
- Archbishop Pakhomiy (1641-1655) on the Astrakhan Diocese website.