Bishop John III (d. May 12, 1356 ) - Bishop of the Russian Church , Bishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl .
Biography
Since 1330, he was appointed Metropolitan Feognost the first and in his time the only Moscow archimandrite. At that time, he was the head priest of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow and was transferred with the brethren to the established personal princely monastery of the Savior on Bor . There is a legend that it was in the Danilov Monastery that the first archimandrite was established in the Moscow principality [1] , but there is also evidence that the first Moscow archimandrite was installed after the brotherhood was transferred to a new monastery in the Kremlin [1] . In the new place, he managed both the economy of the new monastery and the economy and property of the Danilov monastery, which was assigned to this monastery. Also with him, the monastery became the current Grand Ducal burial vault: in 1331, Grand Duchess Elena , Ivan Kalita’s wife and mother of Simeon the Proud, was buried in the walls of the Cathedral of the Savior on the forest [1] [2] . In 1346, Peter became the archimandrite of the monastery, and John was consecrated bishop of Rostov .
Bishop Characteristic :
her husband is honest, storyteller to books, reasonable and verbal, and dignified, existing, for his great virtue, the bishop of Rostov was quick to set off a flock entrusted to him with good fortune
- The Resurrection Chronicle [3]
Information about his activities in the diocese was not preserved.
He died on May 12, 1356.
Links
- John III on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3Voronov A. A. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery on Bor // Monasteries of the Moscow Kremlin . - M .: Publishing House of Law. St. Tikhonovsky is humanizing. University, 2009 .-- 160 p. - ISBN 978-5-7429-0350-5 .
- ↑ Panova T. D. Necropolis of the Moscow Kremlin . ed. 2nd, rev. and add. . Russist (2003). Date of treatment March 27, 2011. Archived July 6, 2012.
- ↑ National Encyclopedic Service of Russia (PSRL, St. Petersburg, 1856, v. 7, p. 202)