Filofei Leshchinsky biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Filofei Tobolsk Filofei Leshchinsky, in the schema of Theodore -, Metropolitan b. Siberian and Tobolsk, saint. The famous enlightener of Siberia, who laid the foundation for spiritual education in the Siberian Territory. Memory on May 31, in the cathedrals of the Bryansk and Siberian saints. Born in the year in Little Russia, in a poor noble Leshchinsky family.

He received education first in Little Russian schools, then at the Kyiv Theological Academy. At the end of the Academy, he married and was ordained a priest. For several years he was a parish priest. Ovidov, entered the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where he was tonsured into monasticism. With particular jealousy, he indulged in the feats of piety, post and prayer. After some time, he was chosen by the economy of the laurel.

Hirotony was performed by St. The huge diocese, where he was to serve, covered the territory from the Arctic Ocean to China and from the Ural mountains to Kamchatka. The prostitute and the poverty of priests is being repaired. ” Saint Filofei created the first Slavic-Latin school for children of the spiritual rank in Tobolsk, teachers in it were educated Kyiv monks.

In the year, the saint is equipped with a mission of two monks to Khutuhta in Mongolia, but unsuccessfully. In the year, the mission he sent to Kamchatka Archimandrite Martinian baptizes Kamchadalov, and St. Filofei makes relations with the Ostyatsky prince Sheshuka and the Obdorsky Tuchabalda. In the year, Metropolitan sends missionaries to Berezovsky and Surgut Ostyaks.

The fight against secular authorities, terrible riots in the Siberian Metropolis and the harsh climate broke the health of the metropolitan. In the year, as a result of a serious illness, he was dismissed from the diocese management, retired to the Tyumen Trinity Monastery and accepted the schema named Theodore. In the year, he recovered so much that he was able to proceed to the execution of the royal decree received in the year, with the order to personally go to Ostyakov and Vogul to preach to the land.

He made several long trips, built many churches, even entered the wild country on the river. In the year by the death of St. John Tobolsky secondly joined the Diocese. During his archpastorism, Metropolitan Filofei built churches, and there were 37 monasteries, founded many parishes and thereby laid the foundation for the spread of Christianity among the Gentiles.

Almost all the time of his archpastoral activities he spent on incessant trips along the wild outskirts, along the steppes and swamps, the taiga and tundra, the enlightening of samoyeds, Voguls, Ostyakov. In the period from the year, the saint with the employees enlightened and baptized to the Siberian foreigners [1]. In the year he made his first missionary trip to the Berezovsky Territory, and a year before his death, the patient, visited the Nizovsky Territory, and reached the distant Obdorsk.

He built a new bishop’s house in Tobolsk, increased his income and brought him to the best state of his estate, multiplied the number of clergy both in churches and in monasteries and increased the content they received; He established several spiritual schools in which the children of foreigners studied, and he worked a lot in teaching children. In the year, he retired to rest in the Tyumen Trinity Monastery, lived in great poverty, continuing to head the Christian mission in Siberia.

He himself was now rarely left a monastery, but many of his former companions worked under his leadership. In the year, the saint took the last journey to the Ostorian Ostyaks. He died on May 31. In pursuance of his testament, the body of the saint was buried in the Trinity Monastery opposite the entrance, "so that, as the testament says, to trail the ashes by the ashes." Metropolitan Filofei was a quiet disposition, condescending to everyone, not conceited.

Founding the relics of St. Philofei Leshchinsky. In the X years, it was possible to find a document refuting information about the destruction of relics. The first attempt to find the relics of the saint took place in the year, but the crypt at the entrance to the Trinity Cathedral found empty, only the number of wooden fragments of the rotten coffin was preserved in brickwork. In the year, the governor of the Trinity Monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon, passed the testament of the granddaughter of the priest, who accepted the last confession from a person who reburied the remains of St.

Filofei. It was written in the will that the relics were buried by the left column of the St. George-Voznesensky Church of the city of Tyumen. From this moment, the search for relics was conducted, there were several unsuccessful attempts at the left columns of different chains of the temple. The edge of a brick crypt was found deeper. After opening its upper arch, a wooden coffin was discovered.

A month after cleaning the crypt from the Earth and the solution in the presence of the Archbishop of the Tobolsk and Tyumen Dimitry, the coffin was opened. The expert commission established that these reburied remains belong to Metropolitan Filofei. The presence of epitrachili and the silver cross indicated the belonging of the remains. At dawn on October 21 last year, the remains of Metropolitan Filofei were transferred from the Ascension-Georgievsky church to the other side of the Tura-to the Holy Trinity Monastery.

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