Faget, Barthold

Bartold Faget ( German: Bartold Vaget ), otherwise Fagetius ( 1656 , Hamburg - 1724 ) is a Lutheran pastor, the first superintendent in Russia ^[1] .

Bartold Faget was born in 1656 in Hamburg , received a theological education in Wittenberg . Since 1679, he served as cantor in Bergedorf . In 1684 he moved to Russia, where he became the pastor of the church in the German settlement ^[1] . In this capacity, in 1689, together with the chief pastor Joachim Meinecke and the Reformed pastor Schonderworth, he opposed the activities of the German mystic Quirin Kulman in Moscow. As a result, Kulman was executed by the Russian authorities through burning ^[2] .

On February 11, 1711, a decree of Peter I was announced at a meeting of Protestant pastors in St. Petersburg, which stated that Bartold Faget was appointed superintendent of all the evangelical churches of Russia. On October 7, 1715, Peter granted Faget a patent in which he demanded to ensure that the Protestants lived "like Christians and faithful subjects." Especially this order concerned captured Swedes who were in Russia ^[3] . The pastor held this position until 1718 ^[1] .