Filaret (Gumilewski)
Filaret Gumilewski ( Russian Филарет Гумилевский , scientific. Transliteration Filaret Gumilevskij ; born October 23, jul. / 4. November 1805 greg. As Dmitri Grigorievich Gumilewski in Lesnoe Konobejewo, Tambov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 21st August 1866 in Konotop ) was a Russian Orthodox archbishop, church historian and theologian.
Filaret, the son of a priest, studied at the Moscow Spiritual Academy in the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad and in 1835 became archimandrite and rector of this institution. In 1841 he was appointed bishop in Riga and in 1859 in Chernigov . During his tenure in Riga, tens of thousands of Latvian and Estonian farmers from the Livonia Governorate adopted the Orthodox faith. His main works are the Orthodox Dogmatic Theology (Православное догматическое богословие, 1864) and the history of the Church of Russia (1847/1848), both of which appeared in several further editions and were revised and expanded by Makarius I , among others .
Filaret was buried in the Trinity Monastery of Chernihiv .
References and footnotes
- ↑ For the many name variants cf. the dataset of the DNB .
- ↑ It was translated from Russian into German by Heinrich Ludwig Johann Blumenthal and was considered the ecclesiastical counterpart to Karamsin's history of the Russian state . Digitized
literature
Web links
- Архиепископ Филарет (Гумилевский) канонизирован как местночтимый святой Черниговской епархии
- The Byzantine Legacy in the Ukrainian-Russian Context. A comparison of receptions and interpretations of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Philaret Gumilewski
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| SURNAME | Filaret Gumilewski |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Filaret Gumilevsky; Dmitry Gumilevsky Filaret; Дмитро Григорович Гумілевський |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Orthodox archbishop, church historian and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Konobejewo, Tambov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1866 |
| Place of death | Konotop |