Hilarion (Rogalevsky)

The worldly name of Archbishop Hilarion is unknown. He came from the gentry Belarusian kind of Orthodox religion, was born in Minsk.

Educated at the Kiev Theological Academy , before the end of which he was tonsured a monk.

At the request of Field Marshal B.P. Sheremetyevo , Hilarion, at the end of the academy, was appointed by the ober-hieromonk to the army. From the army he was sent with A.P. Volynsky to Persia . Upon his return, he was appointed hieromonk to the fleet.

On July 23, 1722, he was appointed Archimandrite of the Lubensky Mgarsky Monastery of the Kiev Diocese .

October 24, 1728 appointed Archimandrite of the Moscow Donskoy Monastery .

March 26, 1732 he was consecrated bishop of Kazan with the elevation to the rank of archbishop .

During his three-year administration of the diocese, he focused mainly on the organization of religious schools and the enlightenment of numerous foreigners of the Kazan diocese. In 1732 he founded a school in Kazan and called teachers from Kiev , Stefan Golovatsky and Veniamin Pucek-Grigorovich . New teachers introduced Kiev teaching methods and academic orders and the School was transformed into a Seminary. According to the draft submitted to them, on February 26, 1733, four foreign schools were established: in Kazan , Elabuga , Tsivilsk and Tsarevokokshaisk .

In 1735 he was transferred to Chernigov . It was said about his successor, Bishop Gabriel , that he "incriminated all before in Russia an unprecedented extermination without a trace." The seminary at Gabriel was frustrated; the teachers went their separate ways; the disciples fled.

On March 12, 1735, Archbishop Hilarion was granted in St. Petersburg a house taken away from Major General Ulian Senyavin, as built on stolen state money.

On February 19, 1736, Hilarion received a remark for the inappropriate use of rude and reprehensible words in a petition to the Highest Name regarding the prohibition of monasteries and churches in Little Russia to buy and receive as a gift from land donors.

In 1737, they established the "Collection of the Virgin Mary, guardian of the Chernigov seminary."

In the same year, General Baryatinsky was arrested for impudent words, but the bishop was released by a decree of the Synod and the investigation of this case was started.

On May 2, 1738, the petition was dismissed to rest at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra , from there he was summoned to the Synod to answer his case. He died on the way to Petersburg. According to some sources this happened in 1738 or early 1739, and according to others - in 1742. Buried in the Tver Monastery .

• Hilarion (Rogalevsky) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Hilarion (Rogalevsky) // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• The archpastors of Kazan 1555-2011