Theophan Goworow

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Theophan the Recluse ( Russian Феофан Говоров / Feofan Govorov also Феофан Затворник / Feofan Satwornik , "Theophan the Recluse," real name Георгий Васильевич Говоров / Georgi Vasilyevich Govorov ; born January 10, jul. / 22. January  1815 greg. In Tschernawsk; † 6 January July / 18 January  1894 greg. In Wyscha) was bishop in Tambov from 1859 to 1863 and bishop in Vladimir from 1863 to 1866 . He is from the Russian Orthodox Churchrevered as a saint and is considered a particularly venerable starce .

Life

Theophan Goworow

Georgi was in Tschernawsk (county Yelets , Oryol Governorate born). His father was the priest of this place, Vasily Timofeewitsch Goworow, his mother's name was Tatiana Ivanovna. He had three sisters and three brothers. From 1823 he studied at the spiritual college in Liwny and from 1829 at the spiritual seminary in Oryol. The Spiritual Academy in Kiev accepted him as a student in 1837. On 15 February 1841 he was awarded with the monk ordination named Theophan. Its namesake was Theophanes , the confessor in the icon controversy. On July 1, 1841, he was ordained a priest monk. In 1842 he became an inspector and lecturer at the Novgorod Spiritual Seminary . In 1844 he received a bachelor's degree in moral and pastoral theology at the Spiritual Academy in St. Petersburg . In 1847 he traveled to Jerusalem . In the library of the monastery of St. Sabas he copied Greek father texts and thus laid the foundation for his later transmission of monastic father theology in Russia. In 1854 he returned to Russia, was appointed Archimandrite and in 1855 was rector of the spiritual seminary in Olonez . In 1856 he became head of the church at the Russian embassy in Constantinople . In 1857 he became rector of the Spiritual Academy in St. Petersburg. On June 1, 1859 he was ordained bishop of Tambow and Shazk . In 1863 he became bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal . In 1866 he retired to the Wyscha monastery. Here he lived from 1873 as a hermit . Theophan was an extremely fruitful writer. His catalog raisonné includes 505 titles. His sermons, which he had given in St. Petersburg, Tambov and Vladimir, were published, as well as his extensive correspondence. He wrote literary letters in which he described the way to salvation. From this grew his main moral theological work. He commented on some psalms and the letters of the apostle Paul. The most widespread was his translation of the Philocalie : Dobrotoljubie . Theophan died in 1894.

Commemoration

Since the introduction of the Evangelical Name Calendar in 1969, the Evangelical Church in Germany has remembered Theophan. His Protestant feast day is January 5th . In 1988 he was canonized (canonized) by the Russian Orthodox Church . His Orthodox memorial day is on 10/23 January.

St. Bishop Theophan the Klausner

See also

List of Starzen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. INKorssunskij, Preoswjaschtschennejschij episkop Feofan bywschij Wladimirskij i Suzdalskij, Moscow 1895, 3.
  2. ↑ Cf. Theophan Goworow, Letter 19, without the year, in: Sobranie pisem. Is neopublikowannogo, Moscow 2001, 31.
  3. ↑ Cf. Theophan Goworow, Letter 408, February 25, 1879, Sobranie pisem, Vol. 3, Moscow 1898, 53.
  4. ↑ Cf. Theophan Goworow, Letter 324, July 17, 1859, in: Sobranie pisem. Is neopublikowannogo, Moscow 2001, 325.
  5. ↑ Cf. Theophan Goworow, Letter 396, March 3, 1873, Sobranie pisem, Vol. 3, Moscow 1898, 41.
  6. ^ See Georgi (Tertyschnikow), Bogoslowskoe nasledie episkopa Feofana Satwornika (1815-1894), in: Bogoslowskie Trudy 16 (1976), 202-222.
  7. ↑ Natschertanie christianskago nrawoutschenija (abstract of the Christian moral doctrine).
  8. ↑ Theophan Goworow in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  9. ↑ Cf. Dejanie Oswjaschtschennogo Pomestnogo Sobora, in: Kanonisazija swjatych w XX weke, Moscow 1999, 74-79.

A selection of works by Theophan

  • Tschetyre besedy po rukowodstvu knigi "Pastyr" svyatago Ermy, Moscow 1884.
  • Tschto est duchownaja schizn i kak na nejo nastroitsja ?, Moscow 1878.
  • Dobrotoljubie (Philokalie), 5 vols., Moscow 1877–1890.
  • Drewnie inotscheskie ustawy, Moscow 1892.
  • Duscha i Angel - ne telo, a duch, Tambow 1868.
  • Evangelskaja istorija o Boge Syne, voplotiwschemsja naschego radi spasenija, Moscow 1885.
  • Istolkowanie molitvy Gospodnej slowami svyatych otzev, Moscow 1896.
  • Istolkowatelnyj sto osmnadzatyj psalom, St. Petersburg 1877.
  • Miterikon. Sobranie nastavlenij awwy Isaii vseschestnoj inokine Feodore, Moscow 1891.
  • Mysli na kaschdyj den goda po zerkovnym tschtenijam is sloa Boschija, Moscow 1881.
  • Napominanie vseschestnym inokinjam o tom, tschto trebuet ot nich inotschestvo, Moscow 1892.
  • Natschertanie christianskago nrawoutschenija, Moscow 1891.
  • Newidimaya bran, Moscow 1886.
  • O prawoslawii s predostereschenijami ot pogreschnostej protiw nego, Moscow 1881.
  • Pisma k rasnym lizam o raznych predmetach wery i schizni, Moscow 1882.
  • Pisma o christianskoj schizni, St. Petersburg 1860.
  • Pisma o duchovnoj schizni, St. Petersburg 1872.
  • Prepodobnyj awwa Isaija, Moscow 1883.
  • Psaltir, ili Bogomyslennye rasmyschlenija svyatago otza naschego Efrema Sirina, Moscow 1874.
  • Put 'ko spaseniju. Kratkij otscherk ascetic, St. Petersburg 1868.
  • Sbornik ascetic pisanij, isvletschennych is paterikow obiteli svyatago Savvy oswjashchennago, Moscow 1891.
  • Slowa k Tambowskoj pastwe, 2 vols., St. Petersburg 1861; Moscow 1867.
  • Slowa k Wladimirskoj pastwe, Wladimir 1869.
  • Slowa prepodobnago Simeona Nowago Bogoslowa, 2 vols., Moscow 1879.1882.
  • Slowa S.-Peterburgskoj Duchownoj akademii, St. Petersburg 1859.
  • Sobranie pisem, 8 vols., Moscow 1898–1901.
  • Sobranie pisem. Is neopublikowannogo, Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-7533-0123-1 .
  • Svyatoj Antonij Velikij, Moscow 1883.
  • Svyatootecheskoe nastawlenie o molitwe i treswenii, ili o wnimanii w serdze k Bogu, Moscow 1881.
  • Tolkowanie na psalmy 1-j, 2-ji 51-j, Moscow 1881.
  • Tolkowanie poslanij sw. Apostola Pawla, 10 vols., Moscow 1875–1896.
  • Tridzat tretij psalom, Moscow 1871.
  • The way to salvation. A guide, transl. JAWolf, Apelern 2004, ISBN 3-937912-00-2 .
  • Lo spirito e il cuore, transl. T. Špidlík, Milan 2003, ISBN 88-315-2525-5 .
  • Metericon. The wisdom of the desert mothers, transl. M.Bagin, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-936484-32-5 .
  • Pour garder la flame. Instructions aux moniales sur les obligations de leur vie monastique, transl. S.Marchal, Lausanne 2001, ISBN 2-8251-1541-X .
  • Povzbuzení k duchovnímu životu. Korespondence, transl. V. P.Otýpková, Olomouc 2004, ISBN 80-86715-33-7 .
  • Raising them Right, transl. Seraphim (Rose), Ben Lomond 2 2000, ISBN 0-9622713-0-6 .
  • Turning the Heart to God, transl. Ioana (Zhiltsov) u. K. Kaisch, Ben Lomond 2001, ISBN 1-888212-22-5 .
  • Unseen Warfare, transl. E. Kadloubovsky et al. GEHPalmer, Crestwood 3 2000, 0-913836-52-4.

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SURNAME Theophan Goworow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Говоров, Феофан (Russian); Goworow, Georgi Wasilewitsch (real name); Говоров, Георгий Васильевич (real name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop in Tambov and Bishop in Vladimir
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernavsk
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1894
Place of death Vysha