Bishop Justin (in the world John Fyodorovich Vishnevsky ; 1751 , the village of Sergievskoye , Moscow province [1] - January 31 ( February 11 ) 1826 ) - bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , bishop of Perm and Yekaterinburg .
| Bishop Justin | ||
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| January 20 ( February 1 ) 1802 - May 31 ( June 12 ) 1823 | ||
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church | |
| Predecessor | John (Ostrovsky) | |
| Successor | Dionysius (Tsvetaev) | |
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| March 25 ( April 6 ) 1800 - January 20 ( February 1 ) 1802 | ||
| Predecessor | Xenophon (Troepolsky) | |
| Birth name | John Fedorovich Vishnevsky | |
| Birth | 1751 Sergievskoye village, Pereyaslav-Ryazan province , Moscow province [1] | |
| Death | January 31 ( February 12 ) 1826 | |
| Buried | ||
| Monasticism | 1773 year | |
| Episcopal consecration | March 25 ( April 6 ) 1800 | |
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Biography
He graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary , left in it as a teacher.
In 1773 he was tonsured a monk.
In 1775 he was appointed law teacher to the Engineering Cadet Corps. He taught the Greeks invited to Russia, the Russian language.
In 1783 he was assigned to a mission to Venice. In 1799 he returned to Russia.
On August 4 ( 15 ), 1799 , he was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery and was appointed a member of the Ecclesiastical Commission in Moscow.
On December 19 ( 30 ), 1799 he was transferred to the post of rector in the Valdai Iversky Monastery .
On March 25 ( April 6 ), 1800 he was consecrated bishop of Sviyazhsky, vicar of the Kazan diocese .
In 1801 he testified and revealed the relics of the saint. Innocent of Irkutsk .
Consecrated in 1802 to the Bishop of Perm, Justin, during the twenty-year administration of the diocese, took care of the spread of Christian ideas among the people , organized a Theological Seminary, built a cathedral in Perm and helped found a sociable women's monastery in Yekaterinburg ( 1811 ).
On November 18, 1806 he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 1st degree. [2]
In 1823, Justin was fired, which was the result of an audit that revealed the numerous abuses of his assistants.
He died on January 31 ( February 12 ), 1826 . On February 5 ( 17 ), 1826 , His Grace Justin was buried under the altar of the cathedral, in the tomb of the bishops.
Compositions
- Slavic grammar composed by priest at the Russian Ministry in Venice. Justin (manuscript).
- Exhortation to the flock for the vaccination of smallpox.
- The exhortation to the Christians of the Perm diocese on the occasion that many thousands of them do not confess or receive communion.
- The exhortation to the shepherds and flocks on the occasion of the famine in five Trans-Ural districts in 1818
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Now - Miloslavsky district , Ryazan region , Russia .
- ↑ The Court of the Months of Summer for the Birth of Christ 1808
Links
- Justin (Vishnevsky) // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Justin (Vishnevsky) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- http://www.permeparhia.ru/index.php?id=426 (inaccessible link)
- Justin (Vishnevsky) // Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "Tree"