Irinarkh Shigin (died 1806) - hegumen of the Russian Orthodox Church .
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Biography
(photo S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky )
There is almost no information about his worldly life, it is only known that Shigin was the son of a merchant from Kineshma [1] .
In 1784, Shigin took monastic tonsure in the Holy Assumption Florischeva desert with the name Irinarch and underwent various obediences at the monastery [1] .
In 1791, Irinarh Shigin was appointed builder of the Bogoroditsky Igritsko-Pesochensky Monastery of the Kostroma Diocese , and on October 8, 1800 he was moved to Makaryevo-Unzhensky Monastery , where he died suddenly from a strike on March 26 (April 7), 1806 [1] .
During the administration of the monastery, he was a dean and present in the Unzhensky spiritual board [1] .
Father Irinarkh was an unsightly character; according to Metropolitan Eugene, he had an order quarrel with almost the whole world, starting with His Eminence and ending with his cell-makers; more than once, he also pleaded with local peasants for the land, but the Pesochensky monastery Irinarkh Shigin entrusted to him during his superiority " greatly enriched " [1] .
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 5 Irinarkh (Shigin) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
Literature
- Case archive of sv. Synod 1805, No. 975.
- Kostroma Diocesan Gazette, 1891, No. 5-6.