Theophanes ( Georgian αααα€ααα , in the world Nicholas Gabunia ; 1803-1859) - bishop of the Georgian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church , Bishop of Mingrel (1854-1859).
| Bishop Theophanes | ||
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| 1854 - June 1, 1859 | ||
| Church | ROC | |
| Community | Georgian exarchate | |
| Predecessor | Zakharia (Dgebuadze) | |
| Successor | Geronti (Papitashvili) | |
| Birth | ||
| Death | ||
| Deacon consecration | January 25, 1825 | |
| Presbytery consecration | 1833 year | |
| Monasticism | January 14, 1825 | |
| Episcopal consecration | 1854 year | |
Biography
Born in 1803 in Mingrelia , in the village of and was the son of a nobleman Vakhushtiya [1] .
He was educated at the Mingrelsky Tsagerey Monastery , where on January 14, 1825 he tonsured monasticism with the name of Theophanes and on January 25 was ordained a hierodeacon [1] .
Since 1827 he was a missionary, first in Svaneti , then, ordained in 1833 as a hieromonk , he was transferred as a missionary to Abkhazia ; his activity culminated in the conversion to Christianity of 1000 souls of heathens and Mohammedans [1] .
In 1842 Theophanes was elevated to the rank of hegumen and in 1846 - to the rank of archimandrite . In 1848, he left Abkhazia and on September 20 was appointed rector of the Tsagerey Monastery [1] .
Moved to the Imereti Gaenaat Monastery in 1853, the following year he was elected and consecrated in Tiflis as bishop of Mingrelian [1] .
Theophan Gabunia died on June 1, 1859 [2] . A quarter of a century after his death (1885), by the merger of the territories of the Guri and Mingrel dioceses of the Georgian exarchate, a new Guri-Mingrel diocese was formed, which ceased to exist after the October revolution [3] .
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 5 Zdravomyslov K. Ya. Feofan (Gabuniya) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- β Lists of bishops of the All-Russian hierarchy, St. Petersburg. , 1896.
- β GURI-MINGREL DIOCESE // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2006. - T. XIII. - S. 488-489. - 752 s. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-022-6 .
Literature
- Zdravomyslov K. Ya. Feofan (Gabuniya) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Case of the Archive of the Holy Synod , 1854, No. 2213.