Archimandrite Gideon (in the world Grigory Ilyich Zamytsky ; d. June 7, 1808 , Kalyazin ) - archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church , archimandrite of the Trinity Kalyazin monastery .
Biography
A native of the Moscow diocese. From 1764 he studied at the Trinity Lavra Seminary and in 1775, while still a student, he served as an assistant teacher of the lower classes.
At the end of the course in 1776 he was appointed a teacher of Jewish and Greek languages , tonsured a monk in 1778, and in 1782 he was appointed prefect of the Perervinsky Seminary and rector of the Nikolaev Perervinsky Monastery with the elevation of hegumen .
On December 9, 1783, Gideon was moved to the abbots of the Moscow Holy Cross Exaltation Monastery .
In 1785 he was appointed archimandrite of the Spassky Kazan Monastery .
Since 1787 - rector of the Kazan Theological Seminary .
Since 1790 - rector of the Sviyazhsky Bogoroditsky monastery .
On January 2, 1793, Archimandrite Gideon was dismissed from the post of rector of the Kazan Seminary.
On May 27, 1794, “for disobedience to the authorities and other acts contrary to the law,” he was expelled from the rector in the Sviyazhsky monastery and from being present in the Kazan Consistory and appointed rector of the Vladimir Tsar-Konstantinov monastery.
In September 1795, Bishop Vladimir of Vladimir instructed Gideon to manage the seminary and teach theology in it, and six months later he officially appointed him the rector.
All the time Gideon was run by the seminary he was devoted to the "bad fight" with the prefect Lebedev.
Dismissed on September 6, 1797 from the rector's post.
In 1800 he was transferred to the Trinity Kalyazin Monastery .
He died in this position on June 7, 1808. Buried in the porch of the monastery Trinity Cathedral.
In many biographical directories, the biography of Gideon (Zamytsky) is mixed with the biography of the bishop of Vyatka and Slobodsky Gideon (Ilyin) , which the compilers took for one person. The misunderstanding was clarified in 1907 by K.V. Kharlampovich .
Publications
- “Instructive Words spoken in the court church” (at the clergy in St. Petersburg) (1786)
- translation “from the Hellenic” language of “Philo the Judean on the Sabbath and other Old Testament festivals”
Literature
- Sheremetevsky V.V. Gideon (Zamytsky) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.